Word: goats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Barth. A labyrinth of intellectual booby traps leads into the deadpan center of a "university," which is Earth's metaphor for a mad, mad, mad world...
...GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Earth. In this novel, which might be called metaphysical science fiction, Barth takes a boy who might be a goat-or a goat who might be the protagonist-into a nightmare collegiate world, which, by flashes of phosphorescent light, might seem to resemble our own. A distinguished puzzle...
...Peter Shaffer, The Pad is laid out as a parable of friendship. Ted (James Farentino), who considers himself God's gift to the working girl, is a crude dude with a smile like a moonlit mackerel and a little black book that would choke a billy-goat. Bob (Brian Bedford), on the other hand, is one of the pure to whom all things are pure, a dear young fuddy-duddy who works as an errand boy in a freight company, lives in a furnished garret in Venice, Calif., and is so madly in love with classical music that...
...GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Barth. An infinitely involved and dazzling fantasy cum parable about goatish (or maybe human) goings-on at an institution of lower learning that represents the modern...
HOGAN'S GOAT. The poetry is purplish, the melodrama mauve, but William Alfred paints a colorful canvas of the deeds and misdeeds of Irish politicians in Brooklyn at the turn of the century...