Word: playboyism
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Thirty minutes and one program later, Joe had brazened his way to one of the biggest TV surprises since his New York Jets won football's Super Bowl. Television, after all, is already surfeited with football, with talk shows and lowbrow entertainment. The Playboy After Dark series, by another TV interloper. Hugh Hefner, is all pretension and forced fun. Yet somehow, as U.S. viewers discovered in the premiere last week, Joe's show had an insouciance, a spontaneity and a genuine joie de vivre that even congenital Namath haters must have found infuriatingly engaging...
COLUMBIA-HARVARD: Imaging a beauty contest between the waitresses at Hazen's and a group of bunnies from the Boston Playboy Club after the bunnies got run over by dirty old men in Mack Trucks. The bunnies would win anyway, right? So it is today in Harvard Stadium. The Crimson is missing some big boys, like G. Farneti, and F. Martucci. But that still leaves the Crimson far ahead of the Lions, who wish they had someone that good to get injured. You Know? So maybe our guys will wise up today and splurge on desire. Maybe Dave Smith...
...Party. This chapel heritage enables him to update Calvin, Knox, Cotton Mather, Praise-God Barebone, and all scourgers of the flesh since St. Paul. Anglican bishops, priests and politicians of every stripe feel his lash, as well as all persons seeking happiness by sun, the Pill, pot, sex or Playboy. Sacred cows of all sorts from Winston Churchill to Eleanor Roosevelt are flogged to the abattoirs. Despite some archness and excesses of language, Convert Muggeridge often succeeds in convincing. As he presents them, the Christian churches and their priests-especially the Anglicans "drivelling away their lives"-do not seem good...
...latest chapter in the bizarre saga of the Krupp dynasty, whose fortunes were based on blood and iron, unfolded in Germany's Ruhr last week. It involved a playboy's high-spending habits - and a squabble over a major industrial merger...
...years older than he, and for the many men friends whose company he cherishes. "If Ruhrkohle takes over the responsibility of paying for Arndt, the state will be financing his playing," said Horst Niggermeier, a union official. "Is it right for 1,000 miners to work to support one playboy...