Playboy After Hours
November, 1967
Amid the censorship furor about Ulysses, nobody seemed to notice that the modern vocabulary of profane, obscene and abusive expressions, as revealed by that movie, is actually rather tame, compared with the fire and brimstone that was unleashed when our ancestors lost their tempers. In Shakespeare's day, a gentleman was practically illiterate if he couldn't hurl curses and threats for three quarters of an hour without repeating himself. Today, on the other hand, we have only a few all-wool obsce...