Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help them," Eckerd admits, "but at least they know I'll do my best to correct the trouble." He means it. When a St. Petersburg woman complained about a book her grandson had purchased in one of his stores, not only Playboy but some 500 paperback titles (including even Zorba the Greek) disappeared from the bookracks of Eckerd Drugs of Florida. Today, the stores sell only publications deemed acceptable by the National Office for Decent Literature...
MARSHALL McLUHAN -- The English professor whose difficult books (Understanding Media and The Medium is the Massage) and a really great interview in Playboy magazine provide a theoretical basis for what acid trippers believe about telepathy: "Tribal man is tightly sealed in an integral collective awareness that transcends conventional boundaries of time and space. As such, the new society will be one mythic integration, a resonating world akin to the old tribal echo chamber where magic will live again: a world of ESP . . . Electricity makes possible--and not in the distant future, either--an amplification of human consciousness on a world...
...Negro girl. She has long legs, is apt to be very thin and wiry. That is the look of now." It is also the look of Naomi Sims, 21, a 5-ft. 10-in. Pittsburgher whose other vital statistics (32-23-34) will never qualify her for a Playboy centerfold, but make her currently one of the most ubiquitous and highest-paid fashion models in the world. Two years ago, Naomi was studying psychology on a scholarship at New York University. Now she is the girl in the A. T. & T. ads ("Fashions by Bill Blass, Telephone...
Except for the "Stanford Speech," each of the pieces has been printed elsewhere. They range from a review of Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth to Eldridge's interview with Playboy, but whatever the subject, the formal topic is always over-shadowed by the man behind the words. Let me drop some clues...
Most large-circulation national magazines go along with Winship. Playboy takes the attitude that obscene words are not to be used for what Editorial Director A. C. Spectorsky calls "shock value or the nervous laughter they might produce, but if the editorial context calls for them, we use them." Atlantic and Harper's both feel that their audience is ready for rough language. "With our literary and sociological claims," says Atlantic Editor Robert Manning, "I see no reason why we should not make judicious use of those words if they make the difference in portraying an extreme feeling." Harper...