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Alfred the Great, the first part of Israel Horovitz's "Wakefield Trilogy," has nothing to do with kings or Yorkshire. It's a seriocomic Pinteresque melodrama involving two spouse-swapping couples in our own Wakefield just north of Boston, where the playwright was born. It's a handsomely acted and fascinating fable of four frustrated and funny freaks. You may believe that murder, adultery, impotence and sadism can't be amusing, but you're wrong; and you'll also have something to mull over for days afterward. But you've got only until Aug. 17, when the troupe follows...
Alfred the Great, part one of Israel Horovitz's still-evolving Wakefield Trilogy, is being produced this week by the Trinity Sq. Repertory Company. Trinity Rep thinks it's taking a big chance on this one because they think Bostonians will only go for the star-studded big-name shows. They like the Red Sox, though, so maybe there's no risk. Richard Kneeland, who stars as Alfred, is reportedly a marvelous actor. Horovitz, you might remember, became a victim of post-Watergate morality after The Crimson revealed that a Harvard degree he said he had was a fake. Horovitz...
Uncovering facts about Horovitz's life can help in analyzing his plays, and, as one Harvard English professor noted, the disclosure about the false A.B. may even be a chance for Horovitz to remove the pretense from his life. But those reasons were entirely peripheral to the decision to publish an account of the author's lie. Through his lie, Horovitz deceived the public, and the wisdom of the proposed penalty, not the wisdom of revealing the truth, should be at issue. I believe that full airing of truth is in itself a paramount social good and only in exceptional...
...rejoice at the disclosure, but neither do I regret it, for it gives some indication of the lapses in integrity even in people who are much admired and respected. As City College moves to fire Horovitz, they will make an even larger mistake by overreacting to a novel situation with a stock response. When Theodore L. Gross, associate dean of the humanities at CCNY, says "Our hands are tied, you can only ask for his resignation," he is taking the easy route. He is striving to convince others of CCNY's integrity instead of safeguarding the institution's integrity...
...open admissions college, firing Horovitz for lying about paper credentials is especially ludicrous. The ridiculousness of the situation is compounded considering the chancellor of the university knew Horovitz had no undergraduate degree, and granted special permission for him to enter the doctoral program. Were CCNY to act sensibly and mete out a minor punishment to Horovitz, the whole incident would disappear; as it is, the stain on Horovitz is being transferred to City College. That university is out of whack with itself...