Subject: Re: Catcher, published in 1951, turns 51 today.
From: midge immington (midgeimmington@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 16:39:56 EDT
hey, pretty cool, Amber!
Midge
--- "Raley, Amber" <araley@agnesscott.edu> wrote:
> Bananafish,
>
> I know we've discussed anniversaries before. I
> caught this on The Writers
> Almanac and thought the 1945 instance was an
> interesting coincidence. I
> don't know if this has been brought up before. I
> hardly think it could have
> been intentional, but one never knows about these
> things.
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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> Poem: "How Lies Grow," by Maxine Chernoff from Leap
> Year Day: New & Selected
> Poems (Another Chicago Press).
> How Lies Grow
> The first time I lied to my baby, I told him that it
> was his face on the
> baby food jar. The second time I lied to my baby, I
> told him that he
> was the best baby in the world, that I hoped he'd
> never leave me. Of
> course I want him to leave me someday. I don't want
> him to become
> one of those fat shadows who live in their mother's
> houses watching
> game shows all day. The third time I lied to my baby
> I said, "Isn't she
> nice?" of the woman who'd caressed him in his
> carriage. She was old
> and ugly and had a disease. The fourth time I lied
> to my baby, I told
> him the truth, I thought. I told him how he'd have
> to leave me some-
> day or risk becoming a man in a bow tie who eats
> macaroni on Fri-
> days. I told him it was for the best, but then I
> thought, I want him to
> live with me forever. Someday he'll leave me: then
> what will I do?
>
> It's the birthday of novelist Anita Brookner, born
> in London, England
> (1928). Many of her early novels, including the
> Booker Prize winning Hotel
> du Lac (1984), were about young women who yearn for
> romance and fulfillment.
> Brookner received a Ph.D. in art history and taught
> the subject at the
> University of Reading from 1959 to 1964. In 1967,
> she became the first woman
> to be named Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge
> University. She published
> several works in her field, including The Genius of
> the Future: Studies in
> French Art Criticism (1971), and Greuze: The Rise
> and Fall of an Eighteenth
> Century Phenomenon (1972). In 1981, she published
> her first novel, the
> loosely autobiographical A Start in Life, in which
> the heroine constantly
> yearns for "her adventure, the one that was to turn
> her life into
> literature."
> It's the birthday of writer Kathleen (Thompson)
> Norris, born in San
> Francisco, California (1880), who was one of the
> most successful and popular
> novelists of her time, selling more than ten million
> copies of her books.
> Her stories usually centered around conflicts
> between the haves and the
> have-nots, emphasizing what she called "the fearful
> power of money upon
> human lives." Some of her titles include The Beloved
> Woman (1921), The
> Foolish Virgin (1928), Miss Harriet Townshend
> (1955), and Through a Glass
> Darkly (1957). Over fifty years, she wrote
> eighty-one novels, two
> autobiographies, a play, dozens of short stories,
> poems, and magazine
> articles, and in the 1940s, a soap opera radio
> serial. She said: "Life is
> easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to
> accept the impossible,
> do without the indispensable, and bear the
> intolerable."
> It's the birthday of explorer and writer Roald
> Amundsen, born in Borge,
> Norway (1872). For hundreds of years, explorers had
> been looking for a
> northern water route connecting the Atlantic Ocean
> to the Pacific. In 1903,
> Amundsen and his crew of six became the first men to
> make a ship voyage
> through the Northwest Passage. His account of the
> voyage, North West
> Passage, was published in 1908. Amundsen was
> preparing to be the first to
> reach the North Pole when he heard that Robert E.
> Peary had beat him to it,
> so he decided to go south instead. He told no one
> but his brother, in order
> to beat the rival expedition of Robert F. Scott.
> Amundsen, four men, four
> sleds, and fifty-two dogs reached the South Pole on
> December Fourteenth,
> 1911, beating Scott by more than a month.
> It's the birthday of religious leader and writer
> Mary Baker Eddy, born in
> Bow, New Hampshire (1821). From a young age, she
> suffered from a spinal
> ailment and spent much of her life preoccupied by
> issues of health. In 1862,
> Baker entered a sanitarium, where she met Phineas P.
> Quimby, a man who
> believed in a "science of health" achieved by direct
> mental healing that had
> religious overtones. Baker was seemingly cured, but
> her suffering recurred
> after Quimby's death. In 1866, she fell on the ice
> and her suffering
> increased. She turned to the New Testament and was
> suddenly healed, which
> led her to the discover what she later called
> Christian Science, or the
> "superiority of spiritual over physical power." In
> 1875, she set down her
> principles in a voluminous work called Science and
> Health, and in 1876
> founded the Christian Science Association.
> In 1951 on this day, The Catcher in the Rye was
> published. This novel, which
> practically defines the coming-of-age genre, written
> by reclusive author
> J.D. Salinger, is the story of a sensitive young
> man, Holden Caulfield,
> adrift in New York City a few days before Christmas
> vacation. It has sold
> millions of copies, and is still one of the most
> widely-read books in the
> United States.
> In 1945 on this day, the first atomic bomb was
> exploded at 5:30 a.m., one
> hundred twenty miles south of Albuquerque, New
> Mexico.
>
> Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.(r)
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> And now on a more personal note I would like to ask
> for some advice from our
> resident academics (you know who you are). The fine
> folks on this list were
> very helpful in helping me choose an undergraduate
> institution back in 1998
> and now it is time to go to graduate school.
> Although my field of study is
> no longer English, I wondered if some of you who
> have taught at a few
> schools can attest to the 'atmosphere' at your
> current and/or past
> universities. After having a wonderful four years
> at a school that felt
> more like home than my mother's house ever did I'm
> more than a little
> frightened to leave my tiny pond for open waters and
> destinations unknown.
>
> Any responses appreciated,
>
> Swimmingly,
>
> Amber
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