A Shaping Talent
Yes, it's too easy to carp! One of the latest British sports is sneering at Playboy—which (with the wonderful Scientific American) seems now to be the biggest-selling American glossy over here. Indeed, there are vulgarities in the magazine. But the current issue features Alberto Moravia, Ray Bradbury and Paul Getty, as well as. Kenneth Tynan and some rather ordinary limericks, in addition to nudish photographs of leading young European actresses, and a delicious Playmate. The editor and publisher, Mr. Hugh Hefner, whatever his quirks, is a splendid sponsor of that combination of beauty and talent which the puritanical Anglo-Saxon feels must be wrong. And he is, too, an admirable crusader for a liberal ethic. Of course, that doesn't do him any good with the English Left, one of whose organs knocked him the other day. It is no good being for racial equality, social advance or any of those things, you see, if you chance to drop a good word for free enterprise: just dirty ROoseveltism.—Racial equality? Yes, and I owe Playboy a special hand because it was an article there, several years ago, which converted me from the gradualist to the immediate view on integration; and how ' often does an adult change his opinion as the result of an article?
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