Word: lampooned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Often the first person in the building, Brian has frequently bore the brunt of Lampoon pranks...
Indeed, if you were an alumnus/ae visiting Harvard two weeks ago and you picked up The Crimson, you would have thought you were looking at the Lampoon spoof issue. After all, Harvard students could not possibly have held candle-light vigils on the steps of Memorial Church in 1997 over grapes! Watching the grape hysteria, I couldn't help but think "what a falling-off was there." Were Harvard's "activists" really reduced to this? More to the point, were they really so unwilling to acknowledge good news...
...Monday night--just as I begin planning my march up the steps of the Castle and the improvised secret knock I'll use to gain entrance--when, finally, I locate a 'Poonster who's willing to discuss the organization. To my surprise, the upperclassman admits right away that the Lampoon was behind both the parodies and the Hasty Pudding prank. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, he explains, "I felt sorry for freshmen who were taken in, but maybe it made people think about institutions like [the Pudding]." He rejects my suggestion that the Lampoon has undergone some radical shift...
...publication on its last legs, I decide to send feelers out far and wide. Soon I realize that it may be difficult to track down someone from the typically clamp-mouthed organization who will talk to an editor from The Crimson, the publication that has historically been the Lampoon's arch-rival...
...certain Plympton Street publication. I let his comment hang in the air for a long moment before moving on, and as the conversation comes to a close I decide that there's nothing to be gained by pressing him about the chair's where-abouts. After all, if the Lampoon continues to put increased time and effort into its publications--if it has decided to become a prolific humor-producing machine--it can only mean that Harvard's daily newspaper will have an easier time doing its furniture shopping in a certain Bow Street stronghold...