Word: reviewable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time was you could write a review of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra without attending a concert. The violins would be out of tune, the clarinets would screech, and the strings and winds would cheerfully experiment with the tempo. No more: or at any rate, a lot less. The HRO still has its persistent problems--most distressingly, an inability, especially among the winds, to play really softly--but last Saturday's concert showed that the orchestra is getting there...
...enlisted in the Army for an uneventful two years. Discharged, he enrolled in the University of Illinois, largely because of another student there named Millie Gunn. While at Illinois, Hefner read Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. It came as a revelation, and he wrote an indignant review in the campus humor magazine. "Our moral pretenses," he said, "our hypocrisy on matters of sex, have led to incalculable frustration, delinquency and unhappiness. One of these days," he promised, "I'm going to do an editorial on the subject...
...Auguste Comte Spectorsky,* 56, who was hired from NBC by Hefner to bring some New York know-how and sophistication (a favorite Playboy word) to the magazine. "Spec" has done that and more. Last summer he hired as fiction editor Robie Macauley, who had been running the distinguished Kenyon Review. "I was familiar with Playboy," says Macauley. "The students at Kenyon read it?so did the clergy. Besides, a magazine like this matures as it goes along...
...organizations which were over-subscribed with applicants -- and the prestigious Law Review probably would be--would still take only the highest ranked students. Thus the Law Review would very likely still be composed of the 25 students at the top of their class. The plan, however, suggests that the Law Review open an additional five places and fill them by competition...
...subcommittee hopes that the Journal will eventually become "a publication capable of challenging the pre-eminent appeal of the Law Review," but its primary goal would be to give more students the opportunity to do legal writing