Word: joshing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is a tender and tempestuous first novel about first love. It is a triangle story of two boys (Lexy and Josh) in love with the same girl (Miri), and it is told in three first-person narratives in which each of the trio is mirrored in the eyes of the other...
Miri is a grave Greek girl with long black eyelashes and long brooding silences who goes to an eastern U.S. college. At a nearby school is her cousin Lexy-mercurial, unkempt, rude and life-intoxicated. Lexy's roommate Josh is well-rooted in America but emotionally rootless, blond, bland and sweet-mannered. Lexy, who has run away from his unscrupulous shipowner father, is pursuing a hero image of himself. He is capable of madly egocentric flourishes, as when he bets an ear against $20 on the turn of a card. Josh, who sees college as a succession of merit...
Further, Yovicsin has conferred with Josh Williams, Bob Margarita, and Ted Schmidt, all members of Jordan's old staff. He expressed his intention of continuing these conferences...
Among those mentioned for the position is Harvard's backfield coach, Josh Williams...
...players' preference is counted for much, however, Harvard backfield coach Josh Williams may receive the Corporation's approval. Williams is known to have received strong support from the present football team and, at one time at least, to have some support within the Faculty Committee on Athletics...