Word: charivaria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charivaria--tidbits from current events, something like the New Yorker's Talk of the Town--are incomparably better in the original, but tongue-in-cheek items are probably the hardest of all writing to spoof. There is an excellent story about the birth of a game called "Museum Ball" which probably comes closer to the witty Punch style than anything else in the issue, though a poem on queues is also amusing. The play reviews, especially a report of a new musical comedy by Mr. T. S. Eliot called, "The First Serpent," are the best actual parody in the magazine...
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