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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many observers in Cambridge believe that all Harvard men should be "intellectual." They point out that the "playboy" is a dying cause that went out with the Gold Coast and postwar Radcliffe, and crusade to exterminate the last real menace to the Harvard community, the "jock." He's a crude, embarrassingly inept social thing in an HAA sweat shirt--a C student at best, these people maintain, as they request more scholarly replacements to beef up the total intellectual output of the College. The most common disagreement is with the admissions policies of the University, which, they say, "have been...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: The Myth of the 'Jock' | 6/14/1962 | See Source »

Purple Noon studies its characters carefully, and Clement has made full use of a small but uniformly excellent cast. As Phillipe, Maurice Ronet is more than the usual doomed playboy: he creates a memorable picture of selfish animalism. When Marge delays making love to lecture him on art, he explodes, destroys her notes, and roars "Why do you mix Fra Angelico and love...

Author: By Stephen C. Rogers, | Title: Purple Noon (Plein Soleil) | 5/8/1962 | See Source »

...benefit of my people." As he moved from Washing ton to New York last week on the second leg of his U.S. visit, he reinforced the impression already made in the capital that he is an earnest, responsible monarch - no longer, he wryly admitted, the Europe-roaming playboy of earlier days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Successful King Business | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...magazine's nudes are reproductions of old masters-Bordone's Venus and Cupid, Manuel's The Judgment of Paris-and remarkably chaste: for the true voyeur, either Playboy (60?) or New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (admission free) houses far fleshier work. Some of Eros' articles are cribbed from history: De Maupassant's Madame Tellier's Brothel, which first wowed Parisians in 1881; poems by the Earl of Rochester (d. 1680), their mild eroticism heavily disguised in battered olde type. Votaries of contemporary vulgarity got their kicks mainly in the titles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Enter Eros | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

...their own generation. The Post World War II American--more and more white collar; more and more a suburban thinker if not a suburban dweller, more and more concerned with only his own. A citizen in a land which suddenly had world leaders , prosperity, nuclear power, sound, small foreign playboy magazine, Fidel Castro Dwight David Eisenhower thrust...

Author: By Jules Feiffer, | Title: Satire, Must Skirt Its Own Cliches | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

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