Word: auburns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Lampoon--In a weird building on Mt. Auburn St. lives the Lampoon, a bunch of guys who think they're really funny. Usually they aren't. A lot of people on campus hate the Lampoon. Their humor, if you can call it that, tends to range from preppie-obnoxious to racist, but they do have occasional bursts of brilliance. The problem is that they're generally convinced of their genius. Two years ago, after a series of racist items in the magazine (how does a cover showing the statue of John Harvard with a black child shining its shoes...
...ranks of this group. Favorite meeting places for this rabid group of sports fans are Kirkland House (the jock house), Master's Open Houses (glorified cocktail parties with free booze), and the Harvard Provisional Co., which is a nice corporate title for a little store on Mt. Auburn that provides just one thing--liquor--to the Harvard community. Whether you hand out at the Harvard Pro or not, it's not a bad idea to plan to hand out at Soldiers Field, across the Charles...
ONCE UPON A TIME, not too many years ago, the Harvard Lampoon had a bunch of writers who were really funny. Unlike the vast majority of their predecessors and successors in the dim reaches of that silly building on Mt. Auburn St., they were given to more than the occasional inspired burst of humor breaking through a floundering mass of sophomoric attempts at cleverness. And these folks had the good luck to be really funny during the late '60s, a period that called for an unusually strong and radically different sense of humor. Some of the writers probably had trust...
...folk music, the person to see this weekend is Molly Malone, playing at the Backroom at the Idler (123 Mt. Auburn St.) on Saturday. And if you don't like '30s and '40s cabaret and folk, you can just sit back and enjoy this old-style, pre-Pamplona coffeehouse, which features a limited...
...retained much of its original decor after the move to Mt. Auburn St., however, and remained a favorite of students and even a few faculty members...