Word: seymour
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Jerome S. Bruner, Psychology; William G. Cochran, Statistics; Bruce Chalmers, Engineering and Applied Physics; Edward J. Geary, French; Donald R. Griffin, Biology; Seymour E. Harris, Eco. nomics; Frank H. Westheimer, Chemistry...
Professor Eugene Rochow's Black Magic 1 (Chemistry 1 in the catalogue) comes at 11--unquestionably the most engaging show since Merlin. He is rivalled, however, by another barker, Associate Professor Seymour ("And that's Rembrandt--more of him later: but now, tell you what I'm gonna do") Slive who offers this term a course on the dutch painters of the seventeenth century (Fine Arts...
Jack Skow claims that Seymour's suicide was "wrong" and senseless because "saints may be martyred, but they do not shoot themselves...
...Seymour was-and is, as far as I and all believing readers of Salinger are concerned-a saint, yes, but not by any standards set down before Salinger. Seymour is a man suffering from the lacerating discrepancies between truth and beauty, Keats to the contrary. Such a man lacks "sense" in the common understanding of balance or proportion, because he is so utterly involved with love. It is unreasonable to judge such a man in terms of a right and wrong that Salinger had probably outgrown by the age of seven...
Sonny, as he was then called, a solemn, polite child who liked to take long walks by himself, had no brothers and only one sister, Doris, who was eight years older than he. Salinger once said that Seymour and Holden were modeled after a dead school friend, so reporters and Ph.D. candidates are forever searching for him. At least two of the author's prep school acquaintances died young, one of them a boy of great brilliance. But intensive detective work shows that Salinger, like a lonely child inventing brothers and sisters, has drawn most of his characters...