RAW and Playboy: irony

[RMJon23]

If you haven't read it, get a load of RAW and his tone and radical New York intellectual attitude here, in The Realist in 1963, and then ponder that Hef hired RAW less than three years later, the highest-paying "regular job" (not as a freelance writer) that RAW ever had:

http://rawilsonfans.com/negative-thinking-on-hugh-hefner/

[Psmith]

Thanks for posting this. Orson Welles considered Marion Davies, Hearst's mistress, a terrific actress.

[RMJon23]

On Thursday, February 14, 2013 9:12:40 AM UTC-8, Psmith wrote:
> Thanks for posting this. Orson Welles considered Marion Davies, Hearst's mistress, a terrific actress.

Gore Vidal thought Ronald Reagan was a good actor in his career in movies. But as President? "A triumph of the embalmer's art."

[frow...@yahoo.com]

On Thursday, February 14, 2013 6:29:17 PM UTC-7, RMJon23 wrote:
> On Thursday, February 14, 2013 9:12:40 AM UTC-8, Psmith wrote: > Thanks for posting this. Orson Welles considered Marion Davies, Hearst's mistress, a terrific actress. Gore Vidal thought Ronald Reagan was a good actor in his career in movies. But as President? "A triumph of the embalmer's art."

Second only to Abraham Lincoln who said "You can fool some of the people some of the time"

[RMJon23]

I find this article astounding on so many levels, but for now let us NB RAW's final assault on his future employer: when Hef asserted there had been a "sexual revolution" in 1963 (!), RAW tears Hef yet another new one, and one of his pieces of evidence is that, if Hef's assertion were true, "Dr. Leo Koch would still be teaching at the University of Illinois." (near the end of the piece)

I did not know who Dr. Leo Koch was. I read the Wiki and there was a link there to Roger Ebert's writing about the case - what Koch wrote in the letter that got him fired - 50 yrs later:

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/01/making_out_is_its_own_reward.html