Word: hogans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...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 William Alfred sits down, lights a meerschaum pipe...
Next year Alfred takes a sabbatical from Harvard and already his calendar is filled with teaching stints across the country and with less academic projects such as openings in Dublin and London for Hogan and ("in the 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...
...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...
...words, he was "just trying to finish second." By the time the fourth round was half over, Arnold Palmer had a seven-stroke lead, and seemed certain to break Ben Hogan's 18-year-old Open record of 276 for 72 holes. Casper, Dave Marr, Tony Lema and Jack Nicklaus were battling for the runner-up purse of $12,500. Then, in one of the most shocking turnabouts in sports history, Palmer blew 1) his lead, 2) his cool and 3) the tournament...