Word: lampooner
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...service organizations unlike Cambridge's many final clubs. But F&Ss could hardly pass muster in the Dean of Students' Office as official student organizations--their exclusive membership policy precludes that possibility. The rushes can't exactly be compared to comps in other organizations, though they approach the Lampoon's comp in ostentatiousness...
...that the staff has decided to condemn student outbursts and disruptions in the classroom, and to recommend punishment for these actions. The pranks committed by the Lampoon, final clubs, and now the Strategic Offense Society (SOS) inject humor into often boring lectures. In fact, the SOS stunt in Government 1091 gave students of all political persuasions an occasion to laugh. The staff, as students, should leave whining about punishing students for violations of University guidelines to grouchy professors and administrators...
...turnover in writing staff has been just as drastic. Of the 17 writers on board this year, 12 are newcomers. (Most come from performance rather than print backgrounds; Michaels this time has generally avoided raiding his usual source, the Harvard Lampoon.) In some ways, SNL is a victim of its own success. Writers can now find many other markets in prime time for their talents, at least in part because of the SNL influence: several of last year's younger writers have left for shows like Seinfeld, The Simpsons and News Radio. "The sensibility of SNL is all over...
...face of a god from his Swiss-German ancestors, but he topped it with a slightly ridiculous pompadour that he wore as a chip on his brow after Washington Post cartoonist Herblock began to lampoon his hairstyle. He detested the media, yet he knew how to use them. He traveled widely, poking into English law, studying prisons, establishing a judicial-administration school. "I want to make things work right," he said when he was derided for spending too much time on the mechanics and not possessing the intellectual capacity to guide legal doctrine...
...Harvard, Henson was the first femalepresident of The Lampoon, a semi-secret Bow St.social organization that occasionally publishes aso-called humor magazine...