Word: tarpley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...panelist accuses senior faculty of callously taking on more and more graduate students in order to free themselves from lowly teaching assignments, even though the students have no hope of finding later placement in the profession. At another session, titled "Should Half the Ph.D. Programs Be Abolished?" Speaker Fred Tarpley of East Texas State University remarks, "From what I hear in the corridors, most people would say yes." He advocates an early warning system to turn off English Ph.D. candidates before they are too deeply committed to a career in teaching...
...friend Tarpley Mott, the 17-year-old son of the editor of the Yazoo Daily Herald, told me he hoped the town does not become a tourist spot now. "That's always been one of the good things about it, not having any tourists at all," he said. "I'm a progressive person. I want change within ourselves, not from other people. Look what happened to Florida." One day in Stubb's as we ate Yazoo River catfish, Tarpley complained: "I can't find any of my friends today. Nobody's where they ought...
When suddenly everyone left town and the accouterments of power vanished and the languor set in again, even Tarpley Mott confessed that the trouble had been worthwhile. It was he who managed a seat in the front row and shook hands afterwards with the man who answered the questions. When congratulated on this, he said: "If you know this town the way I do, you can get into anywhere, I don't care who visits." But the remark was not cynical the way it may sound on paper...