Word: pilgrims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motion picture theatres line these eight blocks, including three skin flick parlors named, in patriotic Bostonian fashion, the Mayflower, the Pilgrim, and the State...
This week, the Pilgrim features "Agony of Love" and "Wonderful World of Girls"--for "broad minded adults with young ideas." A gaudy poster for the first film proclaims it has been "banned over half the world!" If the other half should seek revenge, a familiar yellow and black sign hung just overhead offers some solace: "Fallout Shelter, Capacity...
Theoretically "adults only" can get in on the deal, as the theatres announce in signs large and numerous. The Pilgrim, classiest of the three (occasionally showing films like Loves of a Blonde), asks patrons to please be 21 or older. The Mayflower and the State will have you if you're eighteen...
...muttered it again, "one word, it means two things." Grogan is an interesting man. Every Sunday morning he goes to early Mass at the Arch Street Shrine downtown, then he buys the Sunday papers and goes to the Statler-Hilton Hungry Pilgrim Restaurant for breakfast. He claims that one Sunday the papers were so big that he had to stay for lunch at the Statler before he could finish the papers. On Sunday afternoons he goes up to the Boston Public Library in Copley Square and reads...
...last thing Gog discovers is his conscience, a capacity to make choices for the first time. Ironically, it does him no good. The book ends with Pilgrim Gog, like Bunyan's Mr. Facing-bothways, approaching a fork in the road-or history-on his weary way out of London. And "he does not know which...