Word: playboyism
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...Writing in Playboy, radical feminist Germaine Greer suggests that rape means not just taking by force but taking by fame, charisma, insincere tenderness, or hints of favors to come or largesse to be withdrawn. It is even rape when a lonely woman goes to bed with a man not because she wants sex but because she "would like to develop some sort of relationship with him." Writes Greer: "The man who has it in his power to hire and fire women from an interesting or lucrative position may extort sexual favors. A man who is famous or charismatic might humiliate...
...public, meanwhile, seemed interested only in devising new and more fun-filled ways of beating the TV ban. Some 400 fans who were watching the Dolphin game at the Miami Playboy Club (which has a space-age antenna) were interrupted by a police raid that closed the club for not having a license to operate before 5 p.m. on Sundays. Undaunted, diehard "Dol-fans" found a long extension cord and hauled a TV set outside, where they sat under a spreading sea grape tree, munching Bunny Burgers and watching the game while the traffic whizzed by on Biscayne Boulevard...
...Court Justice to represent America's 22.3 million Grade A citizens, President Nixon nominates Professor Paul A. Freund to fill Douglas's seat. "Not only will my decisions be liberal," Freund assures Court scholars, "they will be easy." With peace negotiations in their summer recess, Bunnies at the Paris Playboy Club take time out to vote Dr. Henry A. Kissinger '50 the "Piecemaker of the Year." In its first report, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) calls the CRR "a bad investment" and demands that the University divest itself of all Glen Bowerstock...
...Last winter the small U.S. branch of the Roman Catholic Order of the Most Holy Trinity raised some eyebrows by soliciting religious vocations in a Playboy ad. Last week the Trinitarians took an ad in the Sunday New York Times to announce the returns from Playboy: more than 700 responses from college men, 30 of whom have already been accepted for training. Among them are black, white, Chicano and American Indian candidates. Nine respondents who had no church affiliation are now taking religious instructions. Others wrote asking for guidance in becoming ministers or rabbis. The Times ad appealed for contributions...
...city high school, more academic and not vocational, not too god but my father went to college and so I would. And I brought historical novels to read in the early hours at the gold course before the golfers went our while Dave read comic books and Playboy. I took SAT's and got decent grades and played some football and did all the right things and got into Harvard and went. And Dave pumps gas on 100th street and when I asked the gas station owner where Dave was he said that Dave quit the gas station; that...