Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greatest tribute The Playboy has received was the riot it occasioned at its Dublin opening in 1907. The Irish nationalists who felt so keenly that the play represented an insult to the honor of their country that they had to shout down the actors were justified. The immorality of Synge's peasants (they admire a murderer and use words like "shift") was only the ostensible cause of the outrage; what fired the wrath of the groundlings was the fact that Synges' peasants are neither squalid nor maudlin, are not, in other words, the stock stage peasants. (Lorca is the only...
...Playboy of the Western World, Synge turns parricide into a theme for comedy, which, unlike most modern comedy, is neither sadistic nor despairing, Christy Mahon becomes the hero of the peasants when he wanders into their town telling of his heroic murder of his father. The sudden appearance of Old Mahon shows Christy up as a mere poet, a liar. And when he actually does perform the crime before their eyes, he becomes a criminal. "There's a great gap," says Pegeen Mike, the girl with whom he has fallen in love, "between a gallous story and a dirty deed...
...When Playboy Publisher Hugh M. Hefner and Playboy Huntington Hartford came onstage last summer with their new show-business magazines, Hefner airily dismissed the A. & P. heir as a competitor. "I don't think Hartford would be too worried if I decided to put out a chain of supermarkets," said he. As a matter of fact, Hartford had never worried about the affairs of the A. & P., and last week it turned out that he had little cause to worry about Hefner's decision to put out a magazine. For a bargain-basement price (some $250,000), Hartford...
S.B.I. sought success as the Playboy of the performing arts, but in the new magazine, the spicy Playboy recipe that had cooked up a $10 million business for Hefner-a few intellectual tidbits in a meaty casserole of bare bunnies-went sour. Last month, with circulation running closer to 250,000 (mainly newsstand) than the hoped for 1,000,000, and with Hefner at least $1,500,000 out of pocket, S.B.I. switched from a fortnightly to a monthly, and pruned its staff...
...Chicago's Playboy Club, Negro Comedian Dick Gregory has begun to branch out from his basic civil rights themes into such topics as the depletion of U.S. gold reserves. "The average, typical American," he says, "is someone who is sitting in his home right now, sipping Brazilian coffee out of an English cup, eating Swiss cheese. He has Persian rugs on his floor. He probably just got out of his German car after seeing an Italian movie. He's sitting at a foreign-made desk writing his Congressman a letter with a ballpoint pen made in Tokyo, asking...