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Lowell plodded doggedly into an epic on the Crusades. His first published poem, Madonna, was pretty bad, even for a school magazine: Celestial were her robes; Her hands were made divine; But the Virgin's face was silvery bright Like the holy light! Which from God's throne Is said to shine...
...search for love and the breakthrough from loneliness. But inside the jacket the reader usually finds an untucked hair shirt of violence and degradation. The gay life never leads down a simple primrose path; most relationships of this sort are entangled in the bramble of sadomasochism, and inevitably, the virgin is despoiled, the innocent becomes jaded, and another sensitive, out-of-step, sad young man is ultimately and tragically tripped up. There are no happy endings in the homosexual story...
...voice. Then, in late 1965, shortly after her four-year marriage to Singer Tommy Sands ended in divorce, she turned her career over to Songwriter Lee Hazlewood. He lectured her in the classic show-biz manner: "You're not a sweet young thing. You're not the virgin next door. You've been married and divorced. You're a grown woman. I know there's garbage in there somewhere...
Both Fosdick* and McCracken are Baptists-but there the similarity ends. A fiery orator and prolific writer who thrived on controversy, Fosdick became the focus of the modernist-fundamentalist battles of the 1920s by questioning the Virgin Birth and the literal truth of Scripture, later gained a national following as a radio preacher. Theologically more conservative, McCracken, 63, seldom made the headlines despite his pulpit support for such causes as civil rights and peace in Viet Nam, but has a widespread reputation among the clergy as a preacher's preacher. Other ministers consider him a classic orator...
Pike made sallies against subjects from birth control (don't play "Vatican roulette (the rhythm method), see your doctor,") to the Church doctrine that Christ's mother was' a virgin ("Jesus wasn't prefab...