Word: goats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American History with a $7 million grant from a former Overseer. Tom Wolfe brings news of the status dropout. An undergraduate who has taken an overdose of LSD attracks "considerable attention from the neighbors" and has to be forcibly taken to the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Hogan's Goat opens...
...Hogan's Goat moves to a bigger house. Professor Alfred announces that he will take a sabbatical next year to work on a couple of other plays. The federal government gives the Graduate School of Design $2 million for a new building. The Harvard Undergraduate Council suggests that non-Faculty members be made Masters. When it and the Harvard Policy Committee hold a referendum on retaining the present form of student government, the 40 per cent of Harvard that bothers to vote gives the present form an 87 per cent vote of confidence...
...view include a stuffed ocelot, a stuffed owl and a stuffed boar (Serra's wife is an amateur taxidermist), bidets crammed with conch shells, beaten-up boxing gloves, and broom bristles. Of his crass menagerie, Serra says: "People didn't know whether Robert Rauschenberg's goat with a tire around it was art. Now they know. If an artist goes on making goats, though, he's hung up." Serra tries to stay loose, and designs his works to last. Says he proudly, "I take great care to glue every feather down...
...same time William Alfred, professor of English, was given a tax-free grant of $2500 for his two recent plays, Hogan's Goat and Agememnon...
...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...