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Texas has too long existed in the vacuum of superficial generalities accepted by both outsiders and natives. The diversity that gives Texas its special character is so obvious that it has become a cliche, and has never attracted more than superficial study, as in John Bainbridge's The Super Americans. As Larry McMurtry remarks. "Texas has lacked many things, but especially it has lacked critics." With the appearance of native magazines like Texas Monthly, and D, that observation may soon by obsolete...
...people around her--her husbands, everybody tells her different things that they don't mean and finally they send her away. The director's snip-of-the-ribbon style, where nothing ends, begins, or needs flourishing, gives a quiet sense of real life to things, works in a vacuum land with no echoes. So along with Peter Falk's husband you almost want to shut this woman away--stop this noise now--even though the habit or the love or the movie of living with her makes it hard and guilty...
...Silence. While the students were demonstrating, residents of the city's pueblos jovenes (slums), who have been badly hurt by soaring price rises on staples, went on a binge of looting. Along Union Street, center of the department-store district, looters made off with radios, TV sets and vacuum cleaners. One man set up a sidewalk stand a scant 300 yards from the Presidential Palace, where he tried to hawk his wares at bargain prices...
...detailed knowledge of a single subject." Such goals have, perhaps, an eternal educational validity almost in spite of change. Even now, when the second is becoming increasingly important, the first is still invaluable, for without a broad perspective, a single area of detailed knowledge can only exist in a vacuum. And basically, without a broadly based foundation of general knowledge, an informed decision concerning a field of concentration is impossible...
...most important, Crane left a political, social and economic vacuum so large that no one person could fill it. Ever since the Crane-DeGuiglielmo split the city council has suffered from a political divisiveness that renders it helpless in coping with Cambridge's major problems. The shattered body has already gone through twice as many city managers since Crane left than it did in all the years that he reigned. Chamber of Commerce President Robert Jones criticizes the council for playing politics above all other concerns. "City Council just doesn't have a leader in the crowd. Many are unhappy...