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Most of the letters were written to Whit Burnett, Salinger's teacher and the editor of Story magazine; Elizabeth Murray, a friend; Judge Learned Hand, a New England neighbor; and Hamish Hamilton and Roger Machell, the author's British publishers. The young Salinger was full of strong opinions and pithy wisecracks. His view of U.S. publishing: "Everybody over here who's ever taught Senior English for a couple of semesters, or worked for a good upholsterer, has considered himself qualified to collect and edit a short story anthology...
Nearly 900 people gathered to listen as he joined the Harvard Jazz Band and jazz greats James Williams, Gray Sargent, Whit Browne and Alan Dawson in a two-hour concert in his honor. The 80-year-old Carter's musical career spans 65 years, and includes a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement...
...experimental was almost identical with it. But not quite. The baboon heart was ever so slightly more experimental, more useful to science (or so the doctors thought), more risky for Baby Fae. If it were your child, and you had two hearts available, and you cared not a whit for science (perhaps even if you cared quite a bit for science), you would choose the human heart...
...there people who do not want to be happy, and what proof is there that Americans, more than anyone else, seek happiness at the expense of reality? For that matter, what proof is there that Americans are especially selfish, or that those who preferred Reagan care not a whit for the poor, or are cruising for a war with the Soviets? Most citizens are as generous as they are competitive, and have mixed and turbulent feelings on everything from public education to the arms race. A vote for Reagan hardly settled these matters. One thing may be said of this...
...character is the wary pessimism engendered by watching too many talented Red Sox teams crumple in September. The words "No Pitching' ought to be carved on every Sox fan's tombstone. When the Pittsburgh Pirates won the World Series in 1979, it was exciting to watch the largely whit, working-class city embrace its largely Black and Hispanic team while the stadium speakers blasted the Pirates' theme song. "We Are Family...