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Like many street Christians, Hoyt came to his vocation by a circuitous route. Born a Roman Catholic, he was once an altar boy. His well-to-do parents were divorced when he was young, and he and a brother were sent to separate boys' homes. He began to sniff glue, drink wine, steal cars. He spent six years in a California reformatory, two more in jail for smuggling narcotics. Paroled at 20, he drifted to the flowering world of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, where he became a member of the Hare Krishna cult and custodian...
...every port." Nonetheless, White House insiders insist that there's a front runner, Harvard Law Student Edward Cox, 23, whom Tricia first met six years ago at a Chapin School dance in New York. In fact, these Washington touts are hinting that Tricia and her steady Eddie will altar all rumors and marry by the end of the year...
...shirts, women in assorted styles of pants or skirts, a few motorcycle boys in mustaches and black leather. Whites, blacks, Orientals, Chicanos. Prayers are read. From a chair at the side, a husky 30-year-old man in vestments abruptly rises, steps swiftly out in front of the makeshift altar, and, flashing a beguiling, boyish smile, booms out: "If you love the Lord this morning, say 'Amen!' " "Amen!" roar the 700 worshipers -nearly all of whom are homosexuals. Another service of the Metropolitan Community Church is under...
...damnation, but as a supranatural embodiment of alienated man, offered up as an atoning sacrifice. This quasi-religious element is pointed up by a Prologue-Epilogue that frames Moliere's play-a blackish Mass wherein sinister, cowled figures sacrifice a goat. The animal's corpse on the altar diminishes by bloody stages throughout the action, as Don Juan moves on to his own final holocaust in a cataclysm of light and,, sound...
These worm-eaten soldiers are sacrified on the altar of reputation. Reason is lost as it is defended: heroism is traduced as it is celebrated, Each new deed only provides a richer banquet for ravenous time- "alms for oblivion"- returning to mock the captain as he struts within the monumental mockery of unreasoning heroism...