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Lydia Leftcoast

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2. Yes, it's basically about a 1950s teenager questioning the whole

Reply to Ohio Dem (Original post)

Wed Aug 29, 2012, 11:26 AM

Aug 2012

"Mad Men" atmosphere of his times. Today's teens (even the teens of the late 1960s, when I was a teen) have different issues. It's like "A Separate Peace," another pointless novel about 1950s teens that somehow got enshrined in the high school curriculum in the 1960s when the teachers were of the 1950s generation.

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I finally got around to reading The Catcher in the Rye, and I have questions. (SPOILERS) [View all] Ohio Dem Aug 2012 OP

You'd have to have been there. bemildred Aug 2012 #1

Yes, it's basically about a 1950s teenager questioning the whole Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2012 #2