Word: churches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pratt is subjected to all sorts of torments. He is psychologically humiliated at an anti-white Horn Power demonstration and is badly beaten up by a deranged Episcopal priest, whose own congregation, at Horn's command, has deserted him for Pratt's church. At a floor-by-floor, six-story orgy staged by Horn, Pratt is exposed to blatant homosexuals, naked prostitutes, hallucinatory drugs. Then one of Horn's co-workers and antagonists threatens to blind and castrate him. Finally, the cowering priest is coated with pitch and thrown naked out into the streets. There at last...
...mind verges on madness. Though he has survived these trials, Pratt still lives in fear and trembling of Horn and his apocalyptic world. And in the end, when someone attempts to kill Horn, it is Pratt who tries to protect him. Secluded in the bowels of Pratt's church, where Horn has maintained a secret hideout for years, the two men finally reveal themselves to each other. Pratt has always been a misfit-he says-though he does have the courage to admit his fears and weakness. Horn emerges as a dabbler in medieval studies and essentially a moderate...
...mass meeting today is being organized and will be run by an ad hoc group of approximately 25 students that split off from the Mem Church group last Thursday...
Peter H. Lemieux '71 said that the group's only function is to take care of the technical details of running a meeting. He said that they did not split from Mem Church because of ideological differences. He added that they split solely because the Mem Church Group had taken a political stand and thus could not run a meeting impartially. "It was apparent someone had to do the job," he said...
SFMT--that stands for San Francisco Mime (pronounce it "meem") Troupe, and they came to Harvard yesterday to help the revolution. After marching to the Loeb as the "SFMT Gorilla Band," and holding a brief rally-concert to greet Faculty members, they marched back to the Mem Church steps where a more receptive audience was waiting...