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...Service. Desperate if not deep signs of change are becoming visible. Now in its 19th year, Playboy is maintaining its posture of dauntless virility while trying to be less of a male chauvinist pig about it. Recently "The Playboy Adviser"-Hefner's answer to "Dear Abby"-piously rebuked a reader who asked if Playboy would help him persuade his wife to give up her career. "To deprive her of a chance to feel valuable to herself and society above and beyond the roles of wife and mother would be not only selfish but cruel," the "Adviser" preached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cupcake v. Sweet Tooth | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...Transformation, narrated by Julia Child. The adventures of a pig in a kitchen. 7:30, Sun., Chan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 3/16/1972 | See Source »

...points out. "And the parents themselves are very patriotic. They stand for capitalism and free enterprise and very much against Communism. They shake their heads when they see students tearing up a flag on TV and they can't understand why police put up with being called 'pig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Behind the Mystique of the Mafia | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

...nearly impossible to remain neutral about Trotsky. Stalin frothed on about him as the counterrevolutionary schemer. George Orwell personified him in Animal Farm as the loquacious pig Snowball, driven out by the dictator pig Napoleon and afterward blamed for everything that goes wrong on the farm. For decades, many liberal intellectuals have overheated their imaginations and their prose on an image of Trotsky as the unbending political outcast and talented literary man. To his closest followers, he was a saint who suffered his final martyrdom in Mexico on Aug. 20, 1940, when a Stalinist assassin buried an Alpine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vintage Red | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

...Blue Knight is Bumper Morgan, a 49-year-old patrolman on the verge of retirement after 20 years in the L.A.P.D. Wambaugh almost challenges his reader: "You want a pig? I'll show you a real pig." Bumper is a flatulent, potbellied, 275-lb. prototype of the bulls that demonstrators love to hate. The caricature is deliberate; the author means to endow a stereotype with complexity and sentiment. Bumper has his own street ethics: "When it came to accepting things from people on my beat, I did have one rule - no money. I never felt bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Supercop? | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

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