Word: gilley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Year's Train. Everyone is kind. Hearty Dr. Gerald Gilley and his wife Pauline, who looks "like a lily on a long stalk," welcome Levin to Cascadia State College-the only one of 52 U.S. colleges that responded favorably to his application for a teaching job. An ex-drunkard and a repeated failure. Levin is humbly grateful. At 30, he sees himself as a "man still running after last year's train, far behind in the world...
...girls of Cascadia respond more warmly to Levin's bearded charm. Teacher Avis Fliss entices him with "her well-stacked bosom and behind like a hard head of cabbage." So does a shapely coed. But love comes thunderously during a chance encounter in an enchanted wood with Pauline Gilley, the susceptible wife of his benefactor...
Nearly drowning in a sea of requited passion, Levin surfaces only to get into more trouble. He rifles the desks of his colleagues in his search for proof that academic freedom is being violated, he rashly campaigns to prevent the cuckolded Dr. Gilley from becoming department head and, in general, behaves like an abrasive cinder in the well-oiled mediocrity of Cascadia State...
...bland and unassuming Northwesterners suddenly close ranks against the wild man from the East. His teaching career in ruins, saddled with Pauline Gilley and her two children, Levin departs-uncertain to the very end whether he is Pauline's savior or her victim...