''Monocle'' was an American

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magazine, published irregularly from the late 1950s until the mid-1960s. Victor Navasky co-founded the magazine while he was at Yale Law School and served as its first editor.Victor Navasky, introduction to the 1996 Free Press edition of '' The Report From Iron Mountain'
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18 December 2006. From 1961 to 1965, it was edited by

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. Calvin Trillin, Dan Wakefield, Neil Postman, Richard Lingeman, Dan Greenburg, and humorist Marvin Kitman also contributed.C. D. B. Bryan. Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center.

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: Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC Fee (via Fairfax County Public Library. Document Number: H1000013342. Gale, 2002. Entry Updated: May 4, 2001 ''Monocle'' was founded by a group of Yale Law School students as a "leisurely quarterly" (issued, in fact, twice a year). After graduation they moved to New York City, where the magazine, in its editors' words, initially "operated more or less like the UN police force—we came out whenever there was an emergency." Later, it became a "leisurely monthly", with the intent of appearing about ten times a year.Introduction to ''The Monocle Peep Show'', signed by "The Editors". Navasky recounts in detail the history of his founding and direction of ''Monocle'' in his 2004 memoir, ''Matters of Opinion.''

''The Monocle Peep Show''

The chapter headings of the anthology ''The Monocle Peep Show'' (1965) give a sense of both the magazine's subject matter and its politically irreverent tone. The book is divided into "Black and White Journalism" (on race in America), "Yellow Journalism" (on East Asia, including the Vietnam War), "Red Journalism" (on communism and the

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), and Red, White & Blue Journalism, on American electoral politics. The "Black and White Journalism" chapter includes, among other things, a piece by African American comedian Godfrey Cambridge called "My Taxi Problem and Ours"—the title alludes to

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comic called "Captain Melanin", and a piece called "We're Not Prejudiced But…" containing a series of one-liners such as "Do Negro Catholic couples have an innate sense of rhythm?" and "Did Gov.

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