Word: cosmopolitanism
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...three top leaders in the House (with Speaker Carl Albert and Minority Leader Gerald Ford). First elected to Congress in 1940, Boggs-after a defeat at the polls and a four-year hitch in the Navy-returned in 1946, and has been there since. Representing an urban and cosmopolitan section of New Orleans, he was not the stereotypical Southern Congressman. Though he joined other Southerners in signing a 1956 manifesto opposing school integration, he dramatically came out in favor of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and three years later voted for the open housing law. Brash and at times arrogant...
...Harvard-Radcliffe community. What the outside faces is a series of articles running from "Barbi Speaks Out She's More than Just a Kewpie Doll" by the significantly named Randy Parley (Barbi's biggest bitch is that she has no sex organs) to "Dear Cosmopolitan," letters written by the equally significantly named Claire de Lune, Phillipe O'Faith and Ann Cephalitis. In between the Lampoon manages to hit highpoints ("Been Up so Long it Looks Like Down to Me," is which Lawnboy Watson, an astigmatic law school reject sings the blues). It also hits lots of lowpoints (Chins and Needles...
...COSMOPOLITAN itself poses some competition for the Lampoon, and they fail to meet it. Between the Hearst Corporation's reputation for intellectual journalism and Helen Gurley Brown's personal style in running her magazine, most of the potential areas in which a parody can play get squeezed out. The distance between an article like "The Bugaboo of Male Impotence" (in the October genuine Cosmopolitan) and "The Myth of the Male Orgasm" is not that great. The Lampoon carries a picture with its story showing a guy holding crossed fingers behind his back and tentatively approaching a girl waiting...
...fears of the Lampoon in putting out a Cosmopolitican parody was that college students would not be familiar with Cosmopolitan and much of the humor would miss its mark because of the audience's ignorance. One result might be that people would not buy the issue, and the Lampoon would lose as much money on it as they have on other parodies...
...comparison of the parody and the genuine article is a pretty convincing demonstration that the only thing worse for the Lampoon than writing for an audience unfamiliar with Cosmopolitan would be writing for one that is familiar with it. The Lampoon's article on acupuncture beauty tips doesn't compete with Cosmopolitan's on the undiscovered joys of having a Chinese lover. It must be kind of galling at the Lampoon to realize that they've come closer to plagiarism than humor...