Playboy After Hours
March, 1966
We were reminded of the innumerable inconsistencies in the English language by a financier friend of ours who, during a recent luncheon get-together, happened to mention the prosperous economic downheavals of a stable postwar Western Europe. He then reminded us that the idea of altering or out serting various prefixes in the cause of semantic lucidity had originated in our own pages (June 1964 Playboy After Hours) and that he could think of no simpler technique for formulating a more limpid lexi...
