Word: barbershops
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...small crisis has arisen within the walls of the Harvard Club of New York: some of the club's members have objected to the barbershop's subscription to Playboy magazine...
...importance in the world, but one nonetheless on which Dartboard feels compelled to comment. The Harvard Club of New York only began accepting women in 1973, and as a result, the graduates who belong to the club, and by extension those members who get their hair cut in the barbershop, are predominantly male...
...these educated men of Harvard are only interested in Playboy for the stimulating and exciting articles so there should be no cause for alarm, that, for example, women are unwelcome there; nonetheless, we understand why some members would take offense at having the some-what lurid publication in the barbershop. After all, as it says on the magazine itself, it is "Entertainment...
...themselves to creating a beautiful living environment. Today, their Phorzheimer suite, composed of two spacious bedrooms and a common room, reflects their first-year aspirations. The two have tailored their living space to their needs with a full-size refrigerator, an entertainment system, couches, tables and even a small barbershop in the corner...
Kurt Vonnegut's Timequake (Putnam; 219 pages; $23.95) is a salvage job, a reprocessing of what the author calls the "best parts" of an unpublished novel that did not work. This revision is a mix of autobiographical bits, plot concepts, barbershop cynicism and romantic idealism, all loosely tied together by a standard science-fiction device: on Feb. 13, 2001, a quirk in space-time flips the calendar back 10 years to Feb. 17, 1991. From that moment, everyone in the world is fated to repeat the decade in every living detail...