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[about Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises] His characters are as shallow as the saucers in which they stack their daily emotions.
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[On The Catcher in the Rye] “This Salinger, he’s a short story guy. And he knows how to write about kids. This book though, it’s too long. Gets kind of monotonous. And he should’ve cut out a lot about these jerks and all that crumby school. They depress me. — James Stern
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Mr. Lehrer's muse is not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste.
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A New Comics Publisher Aims to Shake Things Up
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Mr. Lehrer’s muse is not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste.
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Merit has replaced the old system of inherited privilege, in which parents to the manner born handed down the manor to their children. But merit, it turns out, is at least partly class-based. Parents with money, education, and connections cultivate in their children the habits that the meritocracy rewards. When their children then succeed, their success is seen as earned.
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