Word: playboyism
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...evil. Throughout the '60s, by a process of escalating outrage, the device debased what was left of political dialogue. Radicals painted "Amerika" on campus walls. Police were "fascist pigs." Women's Lib's Gloria Steinem even took up the cry recently, claiming that a female reading Playboy must experience the same revulsion that a Jew would feel encountering a Nazi manual. Meantime, ideologues on the other side professed to see Brownshirts in the bearded radicals...
...Playboy, like the studs it celebrates, seems ever in its prime. Hugh Hefner's middlebrow melange of sex, pop sociology and fiction now sells nearly 7,000,000 copies a month, and sets new records for advertising revenue with almost every issue. This summer it spawned a German-language edition that is selling well...
...Woolworth five-and-ten fortune; in a plane crash; near Aspen, Colo. The son of Barbara Hutton and the second of her seven husbands, Reventlow devoted most of his time and much of his $25 million inheritance to his passion for racing. Though he mockingly described himself as "a playboy," his win in Nassau's 1958 Governor's Cup Race-in a car he both designed and drove-established Reventlow's reputation as a serious competitor. His love of auto racing and his refusal to give it up led to divorce from his first wife, Actress Jill...
...kiosk now offers the only out-of-town news in Cambridge in addition to magazines, papers, and books which span most nationalities and interests--from Frau, Madame, and Ms. to Playboy and Sexology to Brides Magazine and Ladies Home Journal...
...paid $2,000 in cash awards and another $800 for course materials such as the Wall Street Journals that he sometimes buys and sometimes collects from his office at Paine, Webber, Jackson and Curtis in Chicago. With the help of the Illinois state department of correction, Distenfield has persuaded Playboy's Hugh Hefner, Governor Richard Ogilvie and Publisher Marshall Field to attend the classes as guest speakers...