Playboy After Hours
July, 1968
Last holiday season, we jokingly presented a new interpretation of The Night Before Christmas as it might appear to a dedicated disciple of Timothy Leary. Well, as the saying says, it's impossible for satire to keep up with reality these days. The following is from a dead-serious article, "A Psychiatrist Looks at Jack and the Beanstalk," by Phillip Epstein, M.D., in The Book of Grass, edited by George Andrews and Simon Vinkenoog:"The predominant image is one of a miraculous and po...