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                                             Tuesday July 20, 2004


Camille Paglia in her Playboy magazine interview (May 1995):

   PAGLIA:    Hefner has never gotten the credit   
   he deserves--not merely for his influence on the
   culture's view of sex but for creating a whole
   motif, a style for men that was a departure from
   the World War One rough-and-ready type--the kind
   in the action magazines. The style he created
   wasn't just about women, it was about
   connoisseurship. He said it's possible to be a
   new kind of man, a European-style man interested
   in fine stereo equipment, good wine,
   sophisticated conversation and progressive ideas.
   
                        http://privat.ub.uib.no/BUBSY/playboy.htm


This is pretty clearly wrong.
                             
                 HIPSTERISM  
   
   Maybe she's not all that familiar 
   with action magazines?   

   Try this thesis: 
   
   The embrace of low art and popular
   culture is a post-sixties
   phenomena.  

   Prior to that, the American Boob
   felt self-conscious about being a
   boob, and they always felt that
   someday they should really try to
   acquire some "Culture".
                                       KICKING_SELF_IMPROVEMENT
                             
   E.g. the American settlers
   supposedly traveled with a
   Shakespere along with their Bible,
   and liked entertainments that
   included scences from Shakespere
   acted out.                
                             
   E.g. the prevalence of "Hooked on
   Classics" albums, designed to
   provide a quickie education in
   classical music.

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