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...people of the valley are suffering from one form or another of African sickness. Etienne Cavecon, a young schoolmaster, has the disease in its most benign form, "indolence." For Etienne, every day passes like every other, leaving him untouched, unchanged, unmoved, like a man asleep. His foster father Jacob, with whom Etienne lives, has spent his time observing life with such quiet detachment that he has "reached his sixtieth year without ever having had a serious illness or an enduring sorrow." Vigorous pioneers built the home of Jacob and Etienne, but in four generations the family has "shrunk...
...Warren Eagle-Democrat at a time when the community was going through "an explosive, hectic time, caught squarely in the painful throes of a union effort to organize the local lumber mills." Says he: "I learned rather quickly that reporting is a bit more complicated and less benign than simply estimating biscuit consumption...
Weekend Stampede. In 1940 Las Vegas was a scraggly tank town with a tumbleweed economy. But Las Vegas' happy proximity to Southern California and Nevada's benign climate for gambling combined to change all that. By 1953 the population had climbed from 8,400 to 43,000, and business had soared into the financial ionosphere...
...quiet resignation, plodding in its dullness. Similarly drab, Susan is treated so much as a symbol of Boston propriety that she seems brittle and unappealing, while the contradictions of character which make Alice more interesting, are given very vague expression. Far more affecting than these three is the benign figure of Henry's father, who for all his omniscience, is an attractive and bodied character...
...Nassau street merchants speak glowingly of the discrimination and good taste that students show in buying. Chief of Princeton's police, Edward Mahan, is benign when describing the minor peccadilloes that come to his attention. "They are good boys," he says, and points out that rarely is he forced to look up a Princeton for disorderly conduct...