Mr. Sears had been appointed by Attorney General Ed Meese to head a

commission "to investigate the nature, extent, and impact on society of pornography in the United States." Mr. Sears's is clearly no fundamentalist crusade: what he is going after is material that incites to violence and material that affects children. To WFB's question, "Isn't it preposterous to say that Playboy has never been obscene? ... Nothing would offend them more than to prove that," Mr. Sears stoutly maintains that within the definition of the law, no, Playboy is not obscene. With so un-heavy-handed an opponent, Mrs. Pilpel is more the stock civil-libertarian than she was against Andrea Dworkin a year earlier (#S635): "I am very much concerned about other things in this society whichthe commission was not concerned with; for example, shouldn't we be just as excited over homelessness, over poverty?"