Porny Vampires
Wills, Garry
The Alternative January, 1971 7 ified them They are armed, and should be considered extremely dangerous. Certain men in each department are pushovers. Find them and take their courses to satisfy...
...I could not get off the phone...
...They were conducting a tilmed "symposium" on one of New York's nude plays, With the dramatist, actors, and audience participating...
...Lesbians present objected that boy actors had exposed their genitals, while girls stripped only to the waist...
...They are doctored carney barkers and P-R specialists who get in front of any large crowd they can find...
...Find them and take their courses to satisfy your academic breadth requirements...
...At least Mr...
...But at least The Christmas Gift List That Was...
...Take breadth courses after the freshman year...
...Indeed, Dr...
...Phyllis was on the phone, stumbling through a pretentious press release on the "authentic" performances --which took place in a night club...
...He was a nice Southern boy trying to be Tennessee Williams on the gifts of a valentine versifier...
...Look around...
...The K's were in a hurry, and tried 'o mumble their way by me - but when T pulled out a press card, their cardboard faces became serene with helpfulness...
...Nope, not just now...
...Kronhausen female (Phyllis), agitators for free sex (and other things) who try to give an academic air to the intercoursefilms circulated by Grove Press...
...perpetual oblivion The military-industrial complex - a public relations man The F-111 - wings, or anything that will make it fly All "concerned" adults and youth - a bridge over the generation gap (not for Teddy Kennedy's use) Hugh Hefner - a surgical operation Women's Lib - babies Ronald Reagan - student unrest High-minded public servants - low pay The Gay Liberation Front - Puerto Rico Kingman Brewster - a magic wand Leonard Bernstein - Beethoven's Book of Etiquette Eugene McCarthy - U S. Am bassadorship to Tennessee Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - wrinkles The Defense Department - a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity Brezhnev and Kosygin - a thirty-second diplomatic parley with the Jewish Defense League Edmund Muskie - four or five hundred I Q points The Alternative -fame, fortune, and a salary increase for the Eastern Bureau chief 0 authentic Greek plays done in the nude...
...The Kronhausens understood these objections, yet defended the author's courage, genius, and liberalism (all three of which they seemed to treat as synonyms...
...Yes, Playboy has a long way to go...
...0 Porny Vampires Iti Gar% Wills On 9 May, after Kent State, there was a giant anti-war rally in Washington...
...During the most militant speeches, K. male would raise a wispy arm, and wave a gingerly clenched fist...
...But K. male insisted that he had himself just filmed two The United Nations - Communist China Communist China - the United Nations John Birch Society - tooth decay (due to their principled refusal to use fluoridated water) William Rogers - a handkerchief to cry into whenever the Russians do anything naughty Walter Hickle - an igloo Israel - an ally, any ally The Arabs - civilization, any civilization Idealistic youth - a punch in the mouth Pastimes such as "searching for a better world," "doing one's own thing," "moving to the beat of one's own drum," etc...
...Phyllis, pendulant ("and then we rot and rot...
...Phyllis sniggeringly abetted the questioners...
...but don't mind watching rats learn, you will do well in the psychology department There's a place for almost everyone...
...And women's lib people hate Playboy...
...I got only one surprise...
...But if I would leave my phone number with them .. . Early next morning, Dr...
...You can't catch up, the course work is consecutive, unlike the humanities or social sciences...
...Phyllis will want to edge her way onto...
...Kronhausen male (Eberhard) and Dr...
...It was interesting, as I went around the edges of the platform, to see who had made it up there...
...Sign up for one extra course each quarter, then drop the bummer of the bunch before the deadline...
...Men were upset that the boys had no onstage erections...
...Kristol hopes they received these gifts, as they surely were in need of them...
...If you can't write clearly enough to survive in history, there's a place for you in sociology...
...The "plays" were actually skits put together from snippets of late Hellenistic and Empire-period eroticists...
...some success any success Spiro T Agnew - a few weeks of obscurity John McCormack - an increase in Social Security benefits Chet Huntley - three tons of horse manure for his boots Charles Reich - the greening of America America - the greening of Charles Reich Jacob Javits - James Buckley New York City - the abdication of John Lindsay Richard Roudebush - a six-pack of beer and perpetual oblivion Vance Hartke - the prospect of another opponent like Richard Roudebush J W Fulbright - the New York Times "Man of the Year Award" for his courageous and consistent stand against non-whites in South Vietnam and nonwhites in the South Irrelevant things - a comeback Presidential commissions - extinction The intellectual community - all the common sense, decency, and humility it presently lacks (this is probably the biggest gift of all) assemblage, presided over by the K's, spidery in their tight black clothes and white, lifeless faces (which seemed almost as stark, in this dim theater, as under the protective masks they wore on the platform...
...An elderly couple had smeared white protective lubricant on their faces, to keep out the sun...
...I said Hefner did not share some of her enthusiasms --e.g., for homosexuality...
...They would be glad to tell me what plays they had filmed, but -- um-- they couldn't, at the moment, remember...
...If you don't like learning personally...
...When the symposium ended, I went up to ask what Greek plays had been filmed...
...Yes, they're right...
...The marshals for that affair were more restrained than the formal sponsors of it, and they kept people like Abbie Hoffman off the platform...
...you can always find some way out "Seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you " Don't ever cut language or math courses your first year...
...If you're a math major, take "Math for Economists," then take "Math for Psychologists," and "Statistical Techniques for Sociology " That takes care of your social science requirement...
...This was news to me, though 1 had spent over a decade of my life studying and teaching Greek drama...
...Shirley MacLaine, overblown ("we ripe and ripe," said Shakespeare...
...If you can't think rigorously enough to be a philosopher or a scientist, and if you can't read fast enough to go through enormous piles of books (eliminating yourself, English and literature), you can major in history...
...It gave them a blanched, stricken look, two death masks above black turtleneck sweaters...
...The audience, which arrived in unisexual pairs, badgered him about his experience in the play's subject matter, and Dr...
...Richard Nixon - a success...
...Not even which playwright...
...Phyllis was lyrical about her thousand current projects -e.g., the great movie she was making...
...Even Hugh Hefner was in it...
...The women's lib movement has platforms Dr...
...K. female kept edging into the circle that got the most attention - which made for three studies in bralessness: Jane Fonda, molded close...
...It was a dreary According to our Eastern Bureau chief, Christmas 1970 was the most joyous Christmas of all...
...Eberhard exulted that the evening had been a return to the high days of the classical Greek theater, when plays were acted in the nude...
...They were the swinging K's - Dr...
...Get behind here, and it's all over...
...And in his prowlings about the country he has discovered that the following people received these concomitant gifts...
...The play was embarrassing, not only because it bared the actors in feigned homosexual rubbings, but because it left the author's talent exiguously naked, unashamed in its banality...
...I had last seen the K's when sent to an affair of theirs with a magazine article in mind...
...Next to Evergreen, it is a gradeschool paper" (Evergreen is put out by Grove Press...
...They conducted the discussion with a zombie-like ascetic air of humorlessness...
Vol. 4 • January 1971 • No. 3
