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...Texas Senator John Tower campaigned for the job, but Reagan wanted him in stead to be chairman of the Armed Services Committee in the new Republican-controlled Senate. John Connally pushed to become either Secretary of State or Defense, but the Reaganauts balked at the outspoken and controversial Texan. Says one: "There are just too many problems with John, and he brings with him no political benefits...
...image of the local literati's artistic work is descended from a romantic regionalism of "tall tales" on camp fire trails, but this image is changing with the rapid growth of the city and the migration of many non-Texan artists to this university town, evolving into a hybrid of the universal backgrounds of the new-comers and the urbanized concerns of older Texans...
Native Austinite Frieda Werden, editor and publisher of Texan Women and published in Shenandoah, Cedar Rock, Lucille, and Texas Quarterly, among others, admits to Kuzminsky's influence on her own writing, but in her politically potent verse she relies heavily on women's progress from traditional southwestern upbringing into the feminist sophistication of the Eighties. The following is an excerpt from "The Lady in Pink...
...migration of non-Texan writers to Austin is also bringing the awareness of national audiences to local activity as they follow the presses that follow the poets to their new home base. Poets Paul Foreman and Foster Robertson moved from San Francisco, where they published the ten-year-old poetry journal Hyperion, and opened Thorp Springs Press, which has published about ten titles so far. The opening of their off-beat bookstore at 803 Red River Street was a major literary celebration that offered a weekend of readings by scheduled and non-scheduled writers, a home for in-print...
Lamar Muse, 60, the Texan who made upstart Southwest Airlines one of the nation's highest-flying carriers by slashing fares and ballyhooing it as the "love airlines," will soon be back in the air after a two-year grounding. MuseAir will take off next June for seven destinations from San Antonio to Memphis. By 1985 the new airline will fly to 24 cities, including Atlanta and Pittsburgh...