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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...
...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, and begins...
...special House dinner inaugurating the Quincy Arts Festival, William Alfred read from his play "Hogan's Goat." But before he did, he warned, "Please be comfortable, shuffle around, move your chairs, and rattle your glasses. I won't be comfortable unless you are comfortable." That tone characterized the entire evening. With his quips, explanations, and his three different degrees of Irish brogue, the evening proved neither a performance of the play, nor a reading, but something in between...
...Professor William Alfred's bit play, Hogan's Goat, will be produced in Dublin this September. Another of Alfred's plays, Agamemnon, will open in Paris at the same time. Alfred, on sabbatical next year, plans to spend some time in Ireland "to keep an eye on things...
...Such curious insights into three centuries of American manners and morals stud this book like the hammer work of a carpenter who has been paid by the nail. Gerald Carson is quite capable of organizing a text, as he demonstrated in The Roguish World of Doctor Brinkley, the goat-glands man, The Social History of Bourbon and The Old Country Store. But here his source material, the mere listing of which takes 19 pages of eyestrain type, apparently overwhelms him. Confronted with so much unassimilated abundance, Carson opts to fly over it, presenting what he calls "a bird...