Word: charivari
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...phan Landry) receives a big red box. He opens it and pop!, out springs Jack, a lithe, saucy, strutting trickster (Adam Mike Tyus). This Jack-be-limber cues an instant circus fantasia: 16 scamps in parade regalia (gold jackets, white pants, red fezzes) who launch into a charivari - the kind of tumbling act that populates your most soaring dreams, where you feel graceful and defy gravity. At the rear of the stage there's a three-story bandstand, which goes unnoticed until one of the chorines dives from its top, maybe 40 feet high, into a soft tarpaulin held...
...terrible a nature as its name would imply, and there is no good reason why it should not accomplish much good here if the future numbers are up to the standard of the one we have seen. It is our sincere hope that many more numbers of the 'Cambridge Charivari' will be published, that the pictures of the succeeding issues will be as good as those of the first, and, finally, that the Lampoon will become one of the permanent institutions of the College...