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McMurtry is a happy exile, and his insights are more often disparaging than admiring, Dallas and Houston are characterized by "lack of depth, narrowness of style, and insufficiency of mind;" Austin is "a third-rate university town that thrives not because of its intellectual standards, but because of the lack of them." He implies his criticism of Austin to the entire state...
...masturbatory heaven. Like a wild animal who can be tamed according to a set of tricks he is helpless to resist, but who can disfigure the Great White Hunter in the process, Firth never becomes really threatening. His madness is not the agony of a Charles Whitman on an Austin tower, but a private horror and a private satisfaction...
...state in 1964). But the prospect he talks about most is his hazy concept of a "Third Force" in American politics, a kind of nonpartisan alliance of reform-minded citizens. Last week at his office in Salem, the state capital, McCall discussed his plans with TIME Correspondent John Austin...
Something in the way Richardson chose and trained his assistants insured a continuation But the successor firms were never as innovative as Richardson himself. Sever and Richardson's Austin Hall at the Law School are far bolder and more vibrant than the buildings at Harvard by the firms with the long names. And Richardson went on to even more important buildings, such as the Marshall Field Warehouse in Chicago (now torn down), the full-block building that so influenced the fathers of the skyscraper...
College English instructors have made similar complaints in the past, but the percentage of incompetent writers among entering freshmen has risen in recent years. Maxine Hairston, director of freshman English at the University of Texas at Austin, blames the shortcomings on the fact that high school students do not read as much as their predecessors. "They were reared on television," she says. "They simply were not forced to use the language very much." Says Robert Hosman, chairman of the University of Miami's English department: "The fundamentals are not being taught properly in secondary schools. The SAT [Scholastic Aptitude...