Word: hogans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he beat Ben Hogan to win his first U.S. Open championship in 1952, Julius Boros was described by a sportswriter as a man who "played with a cool nonchalance, chomping blades of grass, making shots with a cigarette dangling from his lips." In 1963, when he won the Open for the second time by beating Arnold Palmer in a playoff, he was said to be "placid and pleasant." Last week Boros was still cool, nonchalant, placid and pleasant-and still winning. This time, the prize was his third major title, the Professional Golfers Association championship. Boros still chomped...
...always, O'Neill's language halts short of eloquence; yet in some peculiar way his characters speak a poignant, subliminal dialogue that makes the audience hear what does not quite get said. A supple cast that obviously loves and understands the play gives it emotive depth. As Hogan, W. B. Brydon is a raffish, truculent blend of peasant guile and blather, while Mitchell Ryan's sodden, dandyish Jim Tyrone is a tarnished peacock straight from Old Broadway. Salome Jens, with hoydenish charm, discloses the vulnerable waif inside the intimidating woman. Director Theodore Mann has sensitively staged...
...actors' skill, however, cannot fully disguise the weaknesses of a play that contains more reverie than conflict, more dreams than drama. It is an attenuated lament for the loveless, a gentle moonlit ode to the undernourished heart. Each of the three leading characters is an emotional cripple. Phil Hogan is "misbegotten" because his spirit is as mean and flinty as the rocky Connecticut land he farms. His daughter Josie is "misbegotten" because she weighs 180 Ibs., stands 5 ft. 11 in., and is, in her own eyes, "a big, rough, ugly cow of a woman." A virgin who shams...
...Hogan tells Josie that their landlord is about to sell the farm out from under them and makes her agree to a shotgun plot: she will get Jim drunk, lure him to bed, and keep him there until her father appears with witnesses. The scheme backfires in a tender, boozy nightlong sharing of longings and confidences. Jim falls asleep, little-boy-fashion, with his head in Josie's lap, but not before revealing that there is room in his spent life for only one woman, his dead mother. Dawn finds him, the father and the daughter locked again...
There will be readings of "Hogan's Goat" at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Baker Room, Agassiz. William Alfred will speak about the play. Members and non-members are invited to read...