Word: blaydon
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...soul that Greenbloom saves is that of adolescent John Blaydon, who is typical of the schoolboy in the English novel during the past 100 years-sensitive, mildly precocious, ignored by adults except when he exasperates or embarrasses them. John Blaydon does both frequently, for he is incapable of committing a transgression without being caught. When he goes swimming in the nude with nubile Victoria Blount, she almost drowns, and John is discovered by an entire house party as he sits astride her thighs applying artificial respiration. At school John is similarly arraigned by fate when a homosexual classmate slips into...