Everyone reads "Catcher in the Rye"
Josh Feldmeth (sportcarrier@earthlink.net)
Mon, 14 Jul 1997 12:07:48 -0700
This months issue of GC includes an article about women matriculating
into the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), breaking a 150 year all-male
tradition. It focuses on the Major General (president) Josiah Bunting
III, "a short-haired, jut jawed, Main Liner in the bosom of the
Conderacy" VMI graduate and former Rhodes Scholar.
In the article he is explaining his sympathies for students. Prior to
VMI, he headmastered at Lawrenceville, a Pennsylvanian prep-school.
Having been booted from Hill and Salisbury (two other elite Percy-styled
institutions), Bunting sees himself as a student defender, saying
' "I thought of myself as a Catcher in the Rye," he says.
His face turns dreamy as he remembers the book. " ' Eat your
lovely lamb chop,' Holden's mother says to his sister, Phoebe.
Can't you hear her saying that, in her apartment on the eleventh
floor of 73rd and Madison? 'Eat your lovely lamb chop' " His
face curls into a smile.' July, GC 1997 pgs 124, 170.
Ubiquity indeed.
cheers,
josh