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...Austin, Texas...
...Webern's Five Pieces for String Quartet at Kirkland House on Tuesday, I had a hard time understanding why Vienna was scandalized when it first heard this work in 1913. For these five short movements have a delicate and economic intensity, and when played by Robert Koff and John Austin, violins, Carey McIntosh, viola, and Lawrence Lesser, 'cello, they moved the large audience by their probing, occasionally erupting introspection...
Fortunately, however, the University still contains a small minority dedicated to the 'rag'--the student practical joke. In the past six years, 'raggers' have tethered a goat on Merton Chapel roof, driven an Austin down a Botany Department corridor, rolled a barrel into a graduate student maternity ward at 2 a.m. (the authorities gave the culprit a second chance and he was expelled a year later for setting fire to a dean's mattress), shot and barbecued a member of the Magdalen College deer-park, and painted new pedestrian crosswalks in improbable places at the dead of night. Shortly after...
Early this December, students at the University of Texas began protest picketing of the segregated ABC-Paramount movie theatre chain in Austin. The theatre pickets are spreading, and now some of the groups that co-ordinated last year's sit-in strikes in Atlanta are calling for a nation-wide movement. In Boston, EPIC will shortly organize pickets at Boston theatres belonging to the chain...
WILLIAM S. BURFORD Austin, Texas...