Word: phillip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Esquire's new editor is 32; the publisher, a onetime college friend of his, is 31. Editor Phillip Moffitt, having now reached the average Esquire reader's age (the 30's) is sure he knows exactly what his generation wants: less of the old smart-ass Moffitt's generation, he says, saw the emptiness of their parents' lives but have now outgrown their own cynicism. Economically, "they assume they can make it if they work," says Moffitt. So "after survival needs, they want to know who they are, they want more meaningful vacations, careers...
...Phillip Noyce, on the other hand, is ambitious: a boy with a future, a man with a vision. One of the new breed of Australian directors aiming for international fame, Noyce plucks modest Maguire from his fictional existence in fifties Australia, and saddles this potato-faced sap with the trials of the decade--a whole generation's troubles weighing down on his unathletic shoulders...
...Lasch (freshman year roommates) are successful authors. In the academic world, there is Steiner, and George D. Langdon Jr. '54, president of Colgate University, as well as 74 professors, including three at Harvard: Shapiro at the Law School, Walter J. Kaiser, professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Phillip A. Kuhn, professor of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations...
...Phillip Hofer as a Collector: Selections from the Frances L. Hofer Bequest--Phillip Hofer, curator emeritus of Printing and Graphic Arts, Houghton Library, Fogg Art Museums...
...born-again Esquire will likely be run by the co-presidents of 13-30 Corp., Phillip Moffitt, 32, and H. Christopher Whittle, 31. "I've never heard of these people," says Esquire National Editor Richard Reeves. "They could have landed from Mars." Felker plans to remain in New York City after their landing, but earlier this year he bought an all-advertising throwaway newspaper in California and signed a lucrative deal with 20th Century Fox to develop movie ideas. "In the end I'm going to do something else in journalism," says he. "I'm a journalist...