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Salinger drew from Sherwood Anderson, Isak Dinesen, F. Scott Fitzgerald and especially Ring Lardner, whose wise-guy voice you hear chiming in the snappy banalities and sometimes desperate patter spoken by Salinger's characters, a tone that found its way years later into the neurotic chatter of Woody Allen's New Yorkers. But Salinger bent it all into something new, a tone that drew from the secular and the religious, the worldly and the otherworldly, the ecstatic and the inconsolable. It's customary to assume that the seven Glass children - the Glass family, an intricate hybrid of showbiz and spirituality...
...time of the Revolution, the theme of beleaguered people standing up to a superpower had become the go-to narrative of American identity. The two best-selling books of 1776 featured Moses. Thomas Paine, in Common Sense, called King George the "hardened, sullen tempered pharaoh." Samuel Sherwood, in The Church's Flight into the Wilderness, said God would deliver the colonies from Egyptian bondage. The Moses image was so pervasive that on July 4, after signing the Declaration of Independence, the Congress asked Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams to propose a seal for the United States. Their recommendation...
...second consecutive match at the top flight.The only blemish of the day came at No. 7, where Cortes suffered her first loss of the season, a 9-5, 9-8, 9-6 setback to the Cardinal’s Kyla Sherwood.—Staff writer Barrett P. Kenny can be reached at bpkenny@fas.harvard.edu...
...junior captain Johanna Snyder said. “This was our first difficult match and I felt we all played very well.” Harvard was paced by its upperclassmen, all of whom recorded 3-0 sweeps. No. 6 Snyder rolled over Stanford’s Kyla Sherwood, 9-1, 9-0, 9-3. Fellow junior Katherine O’Donnell surrendered only six points en route to a 9-1, 9-0, 9-5 victory. No. 9 junior Sandra Mumanachit also recorded a 3-0 sweep. This was Mumanachit’s first match of the year...
...Adams went back to his Massachusetts farm, Thomas Jefferson settled at Monticello, James Madison kicked back at Montpelier, Andrew Jackson went down to his plantation near Nashville and Martin Van Buren took it easy at his farm, Lindenwald. John Tyler settled into a relaxed life at his Virginia plantation, Sherwood Forest. Then he joined the Confederate Congress, essentially becoming a traitor to the nation he once led. (See pictures of how Presidents age in office...