Word: studs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least that's what the Harvard baseball team is hoping. Although the stud pitchers--Columbia's Kurt Lundgren, Cornell's Greg Myers. Navy's Jim McMurtry--toil else-where in the Eastern League, no squad has a staff as deep, from top to bottom, as Alex Nahigian's Crimson. And with the revamped EIBL schedule calling for back-to-back, weekend double-headers, every team will have to unearth a fourth starter and third reliever every Sunday...
Most arresting of all is the hero, Arnold Beckoff, played by the author. Arnold's occupation is drag queen; he sings torch songs at a Manhattan gay bar called the International Stud. As the first play opens, he is sitting in costume in his dressing room. He delivers some straight talk about his life, his loves and his lovers, and very quickly, without seeming to try, seduces the audience. Arnold is one of those characters who demand-and receive-an audience's affection. He is tough, funny and, in his own upside-down way, almost clairvoyant...
...irrational" hope is that 30 years from now one of these souls sitting on a committee which controls an investment bank's loan policy may connect "racism" (having correctly identified the term on his Soc. Stud. generals) with loaning money to South Africa and veto such a policy. He will have changed things And he will have done so by putting on a pin striped suit and walking around Harvard Yard or spilling his guts on the Crimson's editorial page...
...once again divided up into East and West and at home compassion has given way to "realism," that self-serving philosophy of men threatened by a change in the fundamental order of things. Nothing to the upset about? Not at Harvard, where "imperialism" is an I.D. on your Soc. Stud, generals, where the Reagan tax cut means a boost in most people's "disposable family income." People feel differently in Jefferson Park, a mile to the northwest, where the housing project is going to slowly crumble and the Food Mart is going to be held up half a dozen times...
...fact that the sun always seemed to come out when F.D.R. was scheduled to speak. Roosevelt was superstitious and avoided 13 at dinner, but he knew perfectly well that "luck" is mainly a matter of shrewd ness and timing. Characteristically, he was an expert at seven-card stud poker, with one-eyed face cards wild...