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Article: How I learned about America--and Africa--in Texas.
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
- Author:
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IN SEPTEMBER 1965 (this is an essay that can begin in no other way), I sailed into New York harbor aboard an Italian ship, once a troopship, now crammed with young folk from foreign parts come to study in America. I came, immediately, from England; at the age of twenty-five, I was heading for Austin, where the University of Texas was to support me to the tune of $2,100 a year for teaching freshman English while I studied in the graduate program.
In the colonies, where I came from ultimately, I had received a conventional undergraduate training in English studies. That is to say, I had learned to speak Chaucerian verse with good vowel definition and to read ...
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...AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 15 -- The Texas Lottery Commission issued the following news release: The Texas Lottery finished out Fiscal Year 2009 by transferring a total of $1.0 billion to the Foundation School Fund to support public education ...
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