Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That such admiration for a "tradition of quiet genteel success" and "a full column of Gardiners, all boasting home addresses such as Brookline and Greenwich and assorted American Embassies" was printed by a newspaper which professes to frown upon arbitrary power structures and their manifestations in South Africa and Playboy centerfolds is most surprising...
...weren't for teenylobbers like Tracy Austin and Pam Shriver, U.S. tennis this season would be nothing but schmaltzy mixed doubles. First it was Jimmy Connors wedding his onetime Playboy playmate. Then last week, Chris Evert, long a top-ranker in women's play and once that way in Connors' court as well, wed British Davis Cup Player John Lloyd in a home-town candlelight ceremony in Fort Lauderdale. The 24-year-old queen of the base lines sounded blushingly unprofessional. Said the woman who has won Wimbledon three times and the U.S. Open four times: "This is only going...
...Task Force. "We're in every profession you can imagine." Says Robert L. Livingston, a gay member of the New York City commission on human rights: "Homosexuals are disco babies and Goldwater Republicans." He is not exaggerating: Donald Embinder, 44, gay publisher of Blueboy, something like a homosexual Playboy (circ. 135,000), once campaigned for Arizona's senior Senator...
...hear it authoritatively from Jerry Rafshoon, the Atlanta advertising man and old friend whom Carter brought in to refurbish the President's image. "We expected the press to give more attention to issues, to be bet ter informed," he complains. Back in 1976 Carter had said to Playboy: "The traveling press have zero interest in any issue unless it's a matter of making a mistake. What they're looking for is a 47-second argument between me and another candidate or something like that...
...collect it they have had no convenient choice but to adopt the time-tested techniques of public opinion polling. Subjects are asked merely to declare their degree of happiness, not define it. Even Pollster Louis Harris turns up as an unlikely temporary happyologist, reporting for this month's Playboy that while 49% of American men rank sexual satisfaction as "very important" to happiness, 84% give that same crucial weight to family life...