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I hadn’t heard this – thanx to the reader who passed it on: CU Prez says no to VM: Father David M. O’Connell, President of Catholic University, commented on the issue. "I have read the play and have actually seen it performed on a television broadcast…I find the play crude, ugly, vulgar and unworthy of…

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