Word: jestering
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...minute, Blot had whipped off an editorial about the CRIMSON. Then a monstrosity cartoon, a "What the next President of the CRIMSON will look like." He was listing other topics for future issues when he heard the Jester coming down the stairs...
...Jester," he glowed, "I've got the sure cure for circulation...
...Arquango Adventure" by a reactivated, graduated editor, and "Ten Toes" by E. Wentworth deserve mention only because they elaborate, humorlessly, the theme of the issue. "In Corporation Assembled" pokes mordant fun at the efforts of the Corporation to choose a new president. I think Blot and Jester try to warn the reader about the harm of bathing beauty contests at Harvard, but their subtle suggestion is not clear...
...always the heroine. She is delightful mouthing lines modeled after Mclieve, Shakespeare, and Chekov, but she just cannot handle a Brooklynese dialect in the American scene; and frankly, I don't see how anyone could. Harrison, too, has no trouble filling brief roles as a gouty husband, a jester, and an Uncle Vanva, but as an American gangster, he is a very brittle tough...
...traditional Blot-Jester dialogue this time finds the Lampoon in uneasy editorial agreement with the CRIMSON concerning the new parietal rules. As the Jester says, "Well, they've decided to let you have them in your rooms from eight to eleven Saturday night, when everyone who has any sense is in the Ritz Bar anyway, and not to have them there at all in the afternoons, which is the only time you can copy their Fine Arts papers...