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...TELL you the story of Waller Creek. Waller Creek winds along the entire length of the University of Texas campus, furnishing the only break in the mass of buildings. Below my dormitory was a beautiful patch of huge cypress trees, oak trees, and a tangle of smaller trees. I'd been around, under, or in those trees ever since the summer after my junior year in high school...
...last things this university needed was 14,000 more football seats and an extension of that concrete monstrosity to twice its present height. But nobody had been told about the worst aspect of the expansion plan. Erwin proposed moving a street over and completely destroying the stretch of Waller Creek I described. Even with the expansion he didn't have to destroy the creek (which he wanted to make into a concrete drainage ditch): the architecture students had drawn up an alternate plan that would have caused only a fraction of the destruction. Even if one considers...
...Lovelady, a sleepy town in the piney woods of East Texas, and Big Lake, though there the faith was on the other side. The State National Bank of Lovelady (pop. 644) used to advertise that "we love people, particularly people to whom money is a mystery." President Jim Grady Waller lived up to his ads. "If a man needed money, Waller would give it to him, even if he didn't have collateral," says Mayor W. T. (for William Thomas) Bruton. "A man's word was good enough." The debtors still owe the F.D.I.C. but if they cannot...
...Separate Islands. He goes into the more substantial second play, Landscape. Here an estranged servant couple (David Waller, Peggy Ashcroft) are living in a now empty house in the country, measuring out their middle age in walks to the pub and vigils by the window. Their respective emotional landscapes-again, sketched in interlocking monologues-are as refracted as John Bury's setting, which strands them on separate domestic islands in the same wide kitchen...
Total silence. Beck is hunched producing a single beep note that gets louder and louder, Waller adjusts his drums, louder and louder and then with a deafening roar the number ends with one crash of a plunging swathe of richly textured sound. It's a good night at the Boston Tea Party.NICKY HOPKINS...