Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This play is literate, wise, perceptive, humane and wryly humorous, but as drama it needs a blood transfusion. Structure may be the chief culprit. Irish Play wright Brian Friel has divided the play into four Rashomon-style monologues. The first and last are spoken by Frank (James Mason), the faith healer, the second by Grace (Clarissa Kaye), his wife, and the third by Teddy (Donal Donnelly), Frank's promotional warmup...
...Frank's healing touch is not bogus but erratic. When his "performance," as he calls it, works, he and the healed are joined in a mystic ecstasy of wholeness...
...core the play is not about the characters' lives or Frank's strange powers...
Goaltender First then hit defenseman Haywood Miller with an outlet pass, and Miller fed Bill Forbush at midfield. Forbush connected with Frank Prezioso, who in turn sent Pete Predun into the offensive zone...
ARCO President Thornton Bradshaw '40, and Director Frank Stanton were the Kennedy School's intermediaries with the ARCO Foundation. Both company officers are members of the School's Visiting Committee. The Kennedy School agreed to the ARCO name in 1977 in return for a contribution of $1.1 million, which equals only 0.16 per cent of ARCO's after-tax profits that year...