Word: playboyism
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...framed as an answer to the question of why Westminster Abbey would not allow Byron's body to be interred there. Thomson might almost have called it "One Sinner in Three Acts," because he dwells almost exclusively on the rakish side of Byron's character-his playboy excesses, his foppish haughtiness, his promiscuous escapades with both sexes. The listener must take Byron's poetic and personal genius on faith...
Other candidacies also were opened up by the ruling, and 15 citizens have entered the race for the state's two congressional seats. The most arresting is a former New York Playboy Bunny, who several years ago changed her name to Sparkle Plenty "to create a new image." Formerly Cheryl Boone of Coaldale, Pa., Candidate Plenty, 28, faces some problems in convincing her neighbors in Santa Fe of the seriousness of her campaign, despite her memorable slogans: "Put a little Sparkle in Congress" and "We all need Plenty...
...Last Hurrah, showing up in white tie at his father's campagn headquarters the night the old man lost his last election, breezing in from a night on the town to find that his father had died. The fictional son was quite the bon vivant a happy-go lucky playboy without a care in the world. The real life model never quite lived up to his fictional counterpart...
...Powell Jr. epitomized the rakishly handsome aristocrat who lives and loves with lofty disdain for what Powell called "picayune matters of personal morality." He often overstepped the bounds of good taste, but for most of his 35-year career as the black world's premier preacher, politician and playboy, Powell was a flamboyant symbol of success and the good life that most of his 430,000 largely black constituents could only dream about. He openly flouted the rules set down by whites, drove expensive foreign cars, dined at exclusive restaurants and made regular trips abroad-usually taking along some...
Late in his career Powell made some effort to rejoin the vanguard of American black leadership, but he was rejected by the emerging Black Power movement. His playboy opulence scarcely fit the hard-eyed, denim-jacketed style of the younger militants. His once-envied achievement of making it in Whitey's world on Whitey's terms seemed increasingly frivolous to separatists eager to develop an independent set of black values. His demagogy remained effective only as long as the situation of blacks remained static. When vicarious achievement was no longer enough for blacks, Adam Clayton Powell became irrelevant...