Word: joshing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Accordingly, the opportunity coming, like the sky to Chicken Little's head, we went to see Josh White. Quiet and stealthy as people late for church, we tapped at the door. At the command "Come," we pushed...
...Union meet by breaking the U.S. women's discus record. Her throw: 147 ft. 8 in. In Naantali, Finland, England's Derek Ibbotson ran his fourth sub-four-minute mile (3:58.7), was followed by Finland's Olavi Vuorisalo (3:59.1). In Oslo, Pennsylvania's Josh Culbreath broke the 440-yd. hurdles world record (51.3 sec.) set by a Russian in 1954. Culbreath's time...
logic with which Sourian handles these expositions is the most striking aspect of the book: the discovery of love in its varieties by Miri, Josh and Lexy shows a calm yet intense emotional sensitivity in the author...
Division of the book into three firstperson narratives is not entirely successful, however. Although it allows the development of insights through comparison, it occasionally makes the book simply boring. The extensive reflections of Josh, who is a pretty colorless character despite his importance, are liable to make the reader impatient. And the retelling of certain incidents from different points of view, while sometimes highly effective, is also frequently exasperating. Here, in his fidelity to a pure understanding of his subjects, Sourian carries writing about what he knows to the brink of tedium...
...such a setting, Josh seems to pale to transparency, while Lexy glows with a passion that finally ignites Miri. At novel's end the cousins know that if they marry, it will be to each other. Only in this ending does Author Sourian, himself of Armenian descent, make an overt slip in his knowledgeable treatment of GreekAmerican customs, for consanguineous marriages up to the third cousin are regarded by the Orthodox Church as incest. At 24, Boston-born Peter Sourian is master of a style that is fresh, natural and ebullient. His characters define themselves in the language...