Word: texan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard too soon. Agnew has said that he may not decide for another two years. But once John-come-lately Connally makes his expected shift to the Republican Party (apparently being delayed until the impact of the Watergate scandal is clearer), the pressure on Agnew to counter the Texan will grow...
...regents at the University of Texas threatened to halt publication of the Daily Texan when the paper ran a factually-correct story stating that the regents had misappropriated almost $600,000 for a new chancellor's mansion. The regents had never liked the paper's anti-war editorials anyway. In turn, the Daily Texan sued the regents and the university system. Legal costs and bleak financial projections for an off-campus operation forced a settlement whereby the paper accepted joint editorial control with the faculty...
...censorship over college newspapers, using financial control of the papers' operations to exact editorial compromises. At Berkeley, the California regents cracked down when The Daily Californian endorsed a political rally which evolved into a small-scale riot; at Texas, the regents--who had never been fond of The Daily Texan's antiwar editorials--tightened the purse-strings when the paper exposed a misappropriation of $600,000 by the regents; at Florida, The Daily Alligator found a regent appointee in the position of editor-in-chief after it ran the telephone number of an abortion referral service in violation...
...abortive narrative that surfaces now and again, the autobiographically-tinted story of a young provincial come to wartime Rome A Texan named Peter Gonzales plays the young Fellini, and he is innocent to the point of validity, wandering wide-eyed through love and squalor. It is a half-hearted attempt to provide some thread of continuity, but Fellini tires of the device, leaves his personal stranded in love with an enormous whore and lapses back into the documentary pose...
...common disease of the cynic is Vicarious Vertigo-the dizzying belief that he can be someone else. Very well, then, let him be, say, Andre Watts or Artur Rubinstein. Every pianist is familiar with the tale of the Texan who asked an old man, "How do I get to Carnegie Hall?" and received the reply, "Practice! Practice!" Alas, repetition cannot guarantee a recital. But $2,000 can. For that amount, the cynic may rent the entire Carnegie Hall, with Steinway, to play Chopsticks all evening. After all, who's listening? The cynic can be Arthur Fiedler...