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Offensive theater Part 2.


The University of Minnesota (body, education) University of Minnesota - The home of Gopher.

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 theater department will perform The Pope and the Witch this month, despite protests from the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, reported The Minnesota Daily. The satire about a pope's nervous breakdown nervous breakdown
n.
A severe or incapacitating emotional disorder, especially when occurring suddenly and marked by depression.


nervous breakdown 
 involves a witch, drugs, and crime. Dario Fo, the play's author and the 1997 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature The Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency" (original Swedish: , is a "well-known Stalinist and anti-Catholic bigot bigot - A person who is religiously attached to a particular computer, language, operating system, editor, or other tool (see religious issues). Usually found with a specifier; thus, "Cray bigot", "ITS bigot", "APL bigot", "VMS bigot", "Berkeley bigot". ," said William Donohue, president of the Catholic League. He asked university president Robert Bruininks to cancel the performance, but the show will go on. Bruininks said that a university is the place for "the free exchange of ideas."
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Author:Sweas, Megan
Publication:U.S. Catholic
Date:Mar 1, 2007
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