Word: spine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stress what Playwright Marasco does well: he writes with fluent literacy and he can create a strong part with a spine in it. He traps the temper of the times, the currents of rebellion and uneasiness that almost visibly pollute the daily air. His clerical teachers are paralyzed by the lack of the very authority that they ought to represent. One priest, Father Penny (David Rounds), provides comic relief by the scabrously funny asides he delivers on his own so-called vocation. But Marasco strains rather portentously to make his troubled school a metaphor for a sick .world, and fails...