Playboy After Hours
July, 1970
Although it occasionally presents concerts and dance programs, the Theater for Ideas, in Manhattan, is primarily a forum for intellectuals to talk to one another. From time to time--there is no regular schedule--panels of the prestigious are assembled (Hannah Arendt, Norman Mailer, Robert Lowell, et al.), and the core of the audience is equally prestigious. The "theater" consists of colliding ideas and rising emotions as the panelists argue among themselves and with the audience. The y...
