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Sat 01 Jan 2010Salinger's cranky youth still speaks to many
SIDELINE CUT: The lionisation of the school sports stars - the jocks - is a particularly American conceit and it has become jaded by now. But it remains true and universal too.
TOWARDS THE end of The Catcher in the Rye, Mr Antolini frets that Holden Caulfield, his former pupil, is in for a “terrible, terrible fall”.
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