Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attention; he gives it-partly for medical reasons, partly from husbandly affection, partly because he is too weak to resist: he has always had "a fatal desire to please." He begins to neglect his work, live on her money, belabor the booze. The tabloids play him up as a "playboy psychiatrist." And strangely, by a species of bloodless transfusion, she gets stronger as he gets weaker. In the end, she breaks her dependency, breaks the marriage, breaks his spirit. She goes on to another marriage. He goes back to a small town in upstate New York...
...guise of exposing ancient Roman tyranny. Muses the novelist's dictator: "Let's face it. Gaul has not been subjugated. The people want political reform. All the people want freedom and hate slavery." In case anybody missed the point, Author Bochenski described Caesar as a "bald playboy"-a clear allusion to the pate and personality of Premier Cyrankiewicz...
...Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly, 57, a lawyer who. like almost everyone else of prominence in the Dominican Republic, served Trujillo at one time, but broke with him and helped organize the powerful opposition National Civic Union. One of the council's first actions: to fire Trujillo's diplomat-playboy and onetime son-in-law, 52-year-old Porfirio Rubirosa ("I have loved, and been loved by, some of the world's most beautiful women") from his $36,000-a-year post as the "inspector of embassies...
...called Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book. Uncle Shelby is a 31-year-old bearded nut named Shel Silverstein, who draws satirical cartoons for Playboy and illustrates conventional books for children. His ABZ Book contains many interesting suggestions for idle little hands. Like D-is-for-Daddy: "See Daddy sleeping on the couch. See Daddy's hair. Daddy needs a haircut. Poor Daddy. Daddy has no money for a haircut. Daddy spends all his money to buy you toys and oatmeal. Poor Daddy cannot have a haircut. See the scissors . . . Poor poor poor poor Daddy...
...Katangese not only for his stout resistance to the onusiens but for his gracious, smiling manner and for the dignity of his somber grey suits. He is never late for an appointment, often arrives five minutes early, then waits outside, homburg in hand, until the hour. He is no playboy; often, at a conference of African bigwigs. Tshombe will retire to his room with a book while the rest of the boys go out nightclubbing...