Word: playboyism
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Like planned parenthood and Daniel Berrigan, Harvard has never been very popular with Catholic America. There are a few who don't mind the great bastion of Eastern intellectualism--the kind of people who read Playboy and don't say so in confession, who snicker wickedly when the bishop belches into the pulpit microphone during his Christmas sermon and especially the ones who root for USC against Notre Dame every November. But real Catholics aren't so kind. As a sign of serious spiritual decay, a Harvard education ranks right down there between nymphomania and a marked distaste for fish...
Sick humor. That's what Paco loved, and he couldn't get enough of it. Gahan Wilson cartoons, Gary Gilmore jokes, National Lampoon raised to the nth degree--Paco took it all in and somehow managed to keep from gagging. His favorite, though, was a cartoon from Playboy or Penthouse or some other urbane excuse for a glossy fold-out with a staple in her navel. Wherever it was from, Paco didn't remember, he simply knew some friend had given it to him one night at a fund-raiser for the United Farm Workers which he attended because after...
...national pastime, now has a snazzy electronic instant replay board to keep the spectators from missing anything and moving baseball caps to keep pitchers from walking. Fans can lament the passing of real grass and the batting pitcher, but the Grand Old Game has gone the route of Playboy; the magazine is still around, but the presentation is not quite the same. This is show-biz, folks, less rehearsed and manipulated than TV or the movies, but big-time mass entertainment...
...media coverage of Carter's interview in Playboy Magazine exemplifies the "trivia and gossip which brings out the worst elements of the press," he said...
World Headlines. The son of the late Tory M.P. Frank Goldsmith, a Rothschild relative who owned hotels in France, Jimmy went to Eton, then turned playboy, gambling for high stakes at London's gaming tables. At 20. he made world headlines by eloping with Isabella Patiño, 18, daughter of Bolivian Tin King Antenor Patiño. After Isabella's sudden death from a cerebral hemorrhage in 1954, Jimmy bought a pair of pharmaceutical firms and went into business...