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While San Francisco led the rest of America in reviving an appreciation of poetry in the Fifties, Austin -- yes, the one in Texas -- has become, in the beginning of the Eighties, a stronghold for small press activity and the writing and performance of poetry. Mary MacArthur, Assistant Director for the National Endowment's Literature Program, has called Austin "the literary capital of the Southwest...
Four years ago, local poets formed a solid alliance in a statewide, government-supported collective of seventy-five small presses called Texas Circuit. The Circuit's Downtown Literature Series has presented nearly two hundred poets reading their own works during the past two years, making Austin one of only twenty American cities to have an ongoing, city-sponsored literary series...
...United States does not face an energy crisis, but a social crisis, William Darity, assistant professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin, told a Kennedy School audience of 60 people yesterday...
Gary B. Ellis Austin...
...militantly political religious right "is an important movement, far more probably than it's purported to be." It worries some of the President's state leaders. Carter won Ohio in 1976 partly because of a heavy evangelical vote, but the rightists are now organizing. Says Jerry Austin, Carter's Ohio coordinator: "They're out there. How many I don't know. They have no track record...