Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without a doubt, the best lines in the current issue were written by no 'Poonster. They are the reaction of people outside the Cambridge community to former Lampoons. These letters run from a Tufts man's snide blast at Harvard in general to the pointed pouts of the Lana Turner fan club, angered by the Lampoon's attitude toward their heroine. "...Don't you wish your crummy students could see our Lana in person...
...BLAST...
...BLAST their weeping whiskers-hirsute RHETORIC of EUNUCH and STYLIST-SENTIMENTAL HYGIENICS ROUSSEAUISMS (wild Nature cranks) FRATERNIZING WITH MONKEYS DIABOLICS-raptures and roses...
...BLAST years 1837 to 1900 Curse abysmal inexcusable middle-class (also Aristocracy and Proletariat...
...Wyndham Lewis tried to rouse a whole generation of Englishmen with that manifesto, but Englishmen had every excuse for not paying attention. The manifesto appeared just as they were girding to meet the greater blast of World War I. Thirty-year-old Painter-Poet Lewis was soon in the army himself, and the authorities showed unusual imaginativeness by assigning him, as war artist, to the Canadian artillery at Vimy Ridge...