Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...castle. 31 Athens Street is a combination of Classical Greek, Continental Renaissance, American Comfort, and William Alfred. The white walls ("It makes everything much brighter, doesn't it?") are covered with illustrations of Greek figures, portraits of colonial women, a sea-scape, some French impressionists, and the Brooklyn Bridge. On one table are three stacks of the book Hogan's Goat (just out) and on another a copy of Life with its Alfred feature. "Did you see what they did to me?" he asks, chuckling at the magazine. "How about that come-hither look by the church door?" And then...
...wind") a Paris production of Agamemnon with Ingrid Bergman as Clytemenestre. And what with all the hoopla, he feels it may be a good time to bring some more works out of the drawer. Already finished are 40 pages of a comedy about long Irish engagements in Brooklyn, and then there's the near inevitability of the Hogan's Goat scenario. "But after that," he said wistfully, "I want to do a tragedy. It seems kind of crazy but it's about a 1929 bootlegger who commits suicide when Prohibition is repealed. He was a friend of the family...
...decision to write plays shows the same kind of early uncertainty (even though he now claims he's "hooked on playwriting"). He first wrote poetry because one of his teachers at Brooklyn College "sold his baby grand and started a poetry magazine" but in 1946 did a translation of Agamemnon "which was no good" partly because it was half-translation and half-play. It was after this that he then began to write for the theatre in earnest and has stuck to the form ever since. It was suggested to him once that Hogan's Goat was really a novel...
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...INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: "We may soon know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the problems of five-sixths of the peoples of our planet who are not Americans."-Indiana Congressman John Brademas at Brooklyn College...