Word: brooklyns
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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...
...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...
...elected Richard Smith '67 of Kirkland House and Springfield, Ohio, president for next year; Jan Rus '69, of Matthews Hall and La Hambra, Cal. vice-president; James Babcock '67 of Kirkland House and Minneapolis, Minn. treasurer; and Bruce Shore, lecturer on Astronomy secretary. This year the waterballers topped Brooklyn Polytech, 12-7, and M.I.T., 9-5, but drowned under Queens, Army, Fordham, and St. Francis...
Lithuania-born, Brooklyn-bred, the young immigrant was raised in a Williamsburg slum. Later Shahn attended art schools in the U.S. and Europe, and over the years evolved his own distinctive style, winning fame as a painter of biting social comment, somewhere between caricature and fantasy. His work has taken many forms. During World War II, he drew posters for the U.S. Office of War Information. He has also done murals and stage sets. In 1956-57, exercising a kind of poetic license, he lectured on art as Charles Eliot Norton professor of poetry at Harvard. Many of Ben Shahn...
Soup du Jour. Before Kinging himself, the kid from Brooklyn jumped from dropout to drummer to boxer to dancer. By the time he settled on his name and his occupation, there was nowhere to go but up to the Catskills, where the jokes, like the soup du jour, are always borscht. Notwithstanding the ethnic limitations of comic performance in the borscht belt, King kept plugging, waited to be discovered...