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When Dr. Thomas tells his daughter Lisa that she will mary Martin Rosenbaum--a Jew, natch--"over my dead body," Father, Son, and Holy Ghost hits the depths of undergraduate soap opera. But it moves on quickly, and while Barry Forman's play never gets around to resolving itself, satisfactorally or otherwise, it certainly does get around...
From a ponderous opening in which Dr. Thomas's son shoots himself with an unloaded pistol, Ghost springs into a series of wonderfully funny monologues which, for the first act and much of the second, more than redeem a rather uninteresting plot. The last act is again ponderous as it attempts to make minimal order of the entanglements already created...
Most of the conflict in his play ends up verbal, and the dialogue tends to overwhelm what little action there is. Yet enough of the individual lines and characters, and of the overall conception, works that Father, Son, and Holy Ghost almost does...
...message of Father, Son and Holy Ghost comes, as one of its characters says of one of its lines, "off a Salada tea bag." And like most of those senseless proverbs, it's kind of funny...
...effect sought to ban bussing. Supporters of the bill called the vote a victory for the "neighborhood school concept." But Brooklyn's Negro Assemblyman Bertram Baker, chairman of the Education Committee, who bottled up a similar bill previously, pronounced that the senate version "does not have a ghost of a chance" of getting to the assembly floor for a vote...