Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rumor that a wealthy K.U. alumnus put up $25,000 or more for Wilt's services may die off, now that he is quitting the campus, says Wilt hopefully. But other well-paid college stars will wonder at his disclaimers of a decent salary at Kansas. More than 200 colleges bid for the privilege of paying Wilt to study in their classrooms. If Kansas offered only the approved room, board, tuition and $15 a month for laundry, it is hard to see why a cash-conscious young man like Wilt chose a college so far from home...
...hero is Joe Chapin (Gary Cooper), leading citizen of "Gibbsville," a small town in Pennsylvania, "a gentleman in a world that has no use for gentlemen." Decent, limited, middleaged, he is as set in his honorable ways as any samurai in his Bushido. and step by inevitable step the story describes how he is driven to commit what might be called O'Hara-kiri -he drinks himself to death...
...soup. Many other photographs are out of focus, poorly lit, and just plain dull. (Not to mention the upside-down shot on page 231.) One of the most annoying technical failures of the Yearbook photographers is their apparent inability to decide what constitutes a true black--had they made decent prints from their negatives, photographs with varying contrasts (from smoky grey to murky black) would not appear side by side...
Forbidden Temples. In this sort of land all but a handful of the most fervent idealists turn cynical, and only Communists consistently rejoice. Sett Rao. a hardworking, intelligent government official, who once dreamed that independent India would be "a decent country where decent people can live in decency and some dignity," now says: "I shrug; I laugh; I work. What else is there to do?'' Campbell traveled with Vasagam. another government agent, who was trying to implement the Gandhian ideal of equality for the untouchables. In a typical village he saw the higher castes stand sullenly...
...Idyll, a nine-year-old girl is picked up by a charming psychopath who has escaped from a mental hospital. Why would a youngster living in a peaceful English village with devoted, decent parents find such an acquaintance rewarding? The answer lies in a bracketed look at 1) the parents' possessive dullness, 2) the child's imagination and romantic thirst for life, brought into play for the first time when the madman's own imagination reaches out in sympathy and need. Conventionally, this ominous encounter ends well after a long spell of breath-holding on the part...