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...play has become Hogan's Goat (try getting tickets on a weekend), Alfred has been lionized by the New York critics, the national magazines are delirious (imagine a professor writing a Hit), and East Side hostesses are fighting to get the new playwright at their dinner parties. Suddenly Harvard's master of Beowulf has taken on a whole new dimension, and what with Hollywood pounding on his Athens Street door, there doesn't seem to be an end in sight. Will success spoil William Alfred? Will he toss away his fedora, his anecdotes, his Wiglaf...
...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 William Alfred sits down, lights a meerschaum pipe, and begins...
...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 but "I know as much about writing novels as about playing basketball." If anything, he feels Hogan was close to movie form and hence his confidence that it will easily be adapted: "I'll just have to take an awful lot of words...
...American History with a $7 million grant from a former Overseer. Tom Wolfe brings news of the status dropout. An undergraduate who has taken an overdose of LSD attracks "considerable attention from the neighbors" and has to be forcibly taken to the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Hogan's Goat opens...
...Hogan's Goat moves to a bigger house. Professor Alfred announces that he will take a sabbatical next year to work on a couple of other plays. The federal government gives the Graduate School of Design $2 million for a new building. The Harvard Undergraduate Council suggests that non-Faculty members be made Masters. When it and the Harvard Policy Committee hold a referendum on retaining the present form of student government, the 40 per cent of Harvard that bothers to vote gives the present form an 87 per cent vote of confidence...