Word: ragging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paper in addition to attending classes is a difficult, perhaps near-impossible task. Yet you clearly do have the talent, facilities and dedication to make it work. That is why it is so discouraging and annoying to see what could be a great paper become just another, irresponsible, student rag. I would hope that you give serious consideration to this problem. I believe many others would join me in suggesting that a re-evaluation is in order. Tom Keane...
...pries loose his grip on its life. His wife deserts him. His barked order no longer controls his anarchic daughter Marilyn, a Sarah Lawrence spitfire who consumes and casts off husbands. He can no longer reach his gently demented mother, who brings Arabs home to bed down in her rag shop. Isaac's brother Leo is an alimony evader who would rather stay in jail playing pinochle with his wardens than return to the streets. The cop's only solace resides in the bear hugs of Ida Stutz, the devoted fiancee who spoons him full of honey...
MEDAL OF HONOR RAG by Tom Cole
Occasionally a playwright comes along to chalk up the score all over again. David Rabe did it with visceral force in Sticks and Bones, a play in which the hero is at peace only with the skeletons who stalk his mind. Medal of Honor Rag is a slighter drama argued like a legal brief rather than felt like a wound...
What a biased, vindictive, small-minded rag...