Word: zooey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suppression of a literary work on grounds of obscenity. Her second-class status thus established, poor Fanny found that the boys just wouldn't leave her alone. Like her sister-in-arms, Lady Chatterley, she has been dog-eared, passed around, pirated, smuggled, disguised in Franny and Zooey jackets, and buried under musky sweatshirts in prep school locker rooms the world over...
...tender years of adolescence are puzzled by the new J. D. Salinger. We took Holden Caulfield to heart because he was our friend, betrayed and maltreated like us by an insensitive world. But the Glass family is beyond our ken. The saga of Seymour, Zooey and the others, clouded by esoteric references to Eastern philosophy, can not hold us as the story of the guileless school-boy did. Has Salinger changed in the ten years of transition? No, he remains essentially the same. We have changed; by growing up we have passed out of the author's small in-group...
...offspring of a Jewish-Irish vaudeville team. Super-intellegent from birth, they started in rotation on a radio quiz kid show. Grown-ups now, they are spread far afield: Buddy teachers English at an upstate New York girl's college; Walker is a priest; Boo Boo a Westchester matron; Zooey a rising TV actor; and Franny a college student. The greatest of them all, however, was Seymour, who committed suicide on vacation in an earlier Salinger story, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish...
...slight super-intellegence in general and the Glasses in particular (like the wedding guests in Raise High) are in the out-group. The Glass children and their devotees are and the rest of the world is an audience-the "Fat Lady in the third row" who Zooey maintains is the real...
...disturb the wonderful Glasses as they grow up. Reliance on ritual is a characteristic of the childish mentality: every cigarette lighting, tie knotting, or tea drinking is a ritual to the Glasses. The temple is the bathroom (which serves as a set for the major portion of the story "Zooey"), and gospel is scrawled on the mirror with old bits of soap...