Holden Caulfield would definitely apply his favorite word to Mitt Romney.
With names from Salinger and Blake, my two new grandchildren have promising destinies.
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Depending on your point of view, literature reduced to tweets is either comic or horrifying.
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It can be argued that “Slaughterhouse Five” and “Catcher in the Rye” were both shaped by their authors suffering from PTSD.
Parents pressure schools to ban books because they want to protect their children. Their children want the books because they have a different set of needs.
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Which literary character is Mitt Romney? Possibilities include Faustus, Chauncey Gardener, the Hollow Men, Richard Cory, Tom Buchanan, and Joseph Conrad’s Station Manager.
Mitt Romney may appear to lack a core, but so did Chance in Jerzy Kosinski’s novel “Being There.” And even Barack Obama is different things to different people.
