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Gogo and Didi, the heroes of Waiting for Godot, are Beckett's symbols of the twentieth century man; they are former hoboes, now burns, who dress in the loose fitting and shabby formal clothes of the burlesque clown; they are former homosexuals, now incapable of satisfying each other beyond a furtive embrace or a titillating story about an Englishman in a brothel; and, because of Beckett's genius for paradox, they turn out to be dignified human beings...
...final Crimson touchdown on a two yard plunge by Bill Taylor finished the scoring after Army had tallied a third time in the quarter on a 10 yard run by Ron Beckett...
...also had a series of 11 low-budget Workshop productions. Besides providing one student a chance to test his playwrting on audiences (as indicated earlier), the Theatre Workshop gave Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, Ionesco's The Bald Soprano, Adamov's Professor Taranne, Fry's A Phoenix Too Frequent, Synge's Shadow of the Glen, Genet's The Maids, David English's Waiting for Goodman, Robert Shure's Twink, Ionesco's Jack and O'Neill's The Rope. The production of the last-named was totally inept, but the rest were well worth a visit, with outstanding performances...
Later, the Society offered an extremely effective staging of Stevens' dramatic monologue Among the Candles, in which than Revere '60 captured a proper hypnotic lyricism; and, under the rection of Asher and a strong production Beckett's Endgame, with accomplished performances in its four page by Philip S. Weld '60, Brian B. Doyle '62, and E. Gerstenfeld...
...British contingent is headed by Mrs. Tighe Nickalls, known familiarly as Tiger, a ten-year veteran of traipsing from feria to feria; Colonel Christopher Beckett, who started in the prewar days of Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon, and thinks the art has declined since Manolete's time because now "the matadors want to live until tomorrow"; and Nora McAlpine, owner of London's Dorchester Hotel, who this year brought her 16-year-old daughter to the fights...