Word: lampooner
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...Memorandum at the Ex this past Weekend, you should forever regret missing the chance to learn the intricacies and contours of Ptydepe. Junior Martin Hostetler's adaptation of now-Czech-President Havel's madcap satirical comedy was, for the most part, dead-on. The play itself, essentially a lampoon of modern bureaucracy based on the introduction of a scientifically engineered language, "Ptydepe," into a truly bizarre office space, is remarkably relevant to 20-somethings caught up in today's corporate America. Because Havel's material is so clever, a decent production of The Memorandum would be easy, but an exceptional...
...Harvard's publications have taken pride from their lengthy rivalries. Stealing symbols of the organizations or starting offshoots, the papers and magazines have fought more battles than anyone else on campus. The most storied rivalry, in place for over a hundred years, has been between The Crimson and the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
...Less gruesome but just as vindictive was William Randolph Hearst, Class of 1886, known better in the annals of history as a yellow journalism trailblazer and newspaper magnate, but back in his Harvard days, just another troublemaker from the Lampoon staff. A practical joker at heart, stories of his antics, especially those aimed at his instructors, were legendary. For one particularly cheeky stunt, he bought a jackass and snuck it into a professor's room. When the donkey greeted the man on his arrival, hanging around the animal's neck was a card that read, "Now there...
...Harvard's publications have taken pride from their lengthy rivalries. Stealing symbols of the organizations or starting offshoots, the papers and magazines have fought more battles than anyone else on campus. The most storied rivalry, in place for over a hundred years, has been between The Crimson and the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
Less gruesome but just as vindictive was William Randolph Hearst, Class of 1886, known better in the annals of history as a yellow journalism trailblazer and newspaper magnate, but back in his Harvard days, just another troublemaker from the Lampoon staff. A practical joker at heart, stories of his antics, especially those aimed at his instructors, were legendary. For one particularly cheeky stunt, he bought a jackass and snuck it into a professor's room...