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There's considerable talk these days about the generation gap and the lack of communication between the generations. Here at the Purple Onion 2, John Alioto and John Wernicke are trying to reestablish those lines of communication. John, what is your feeling about the alienation of youth from the,

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uh, so-called, uh, majority society on the other side of the generation gap? Well, I think that most of the kids find today that, you know, like I, I was saying before, we won World War II. God was on our side after we won that, and, and

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the older generation felt that they were going to give their children, uh something that they didn't have, well, they also, other than the economic benefits that they didn't have, they also gave us the ideals that perhaps during the depression they couldn't keep, uh, for instance, prejudice.

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Uh, we were taught as children and we have been told, brought up in a society that prejudice is a bad thing, but the question is whether or not the human being is capable of not being prejudiced. Is that what you're trying to say with your play

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High Mass? Well I've picked here, Gordon, a segment of the play. We'll see what you think. It will illustrate, I hope, our point. What the hell's wrong with these students? They're ruining the name of this college. Its tradition. The fault doesn't lie with the students.

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Our tradition has always given the utmost belief to something done out of love. Ideals, Sean, ideals. Ifs and hopes that have nothing whatsoever to do with running a Christian academic community in 1967. My beliefs. Oh, we're all fond of Socrates, Sean, but this isn't a play.

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This isn't theater. This is reality, and reality can't be glided over with poetic license. Reality carries with it certain responsibilities that must be met. Have you lost your sense of pride, Sean? Not my sense of pride. It's rather my sense of guilt. Well, you'll see where

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it will get you. That's it.