Word: lampooner
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...sound like a somewhat heavy-handed lampoon of the American health- care system -- bad Joseph Heller, say. It gets worse. If Murphy is furloughed for the prolonged pre-transplant regimen, afterward he would return to prison. Would he be furloughed promptly again if a heart became available unexpectedly, as donor hearts are wont to do? The Bureau of Prisons says he would be. Murphy has his doubts. Doctors see a logistical snarl that could hopelessly compromise the success of the transplant. The authorities shrug. "The Bureau of Prisons doesn't have a hang-up," explains Robert McFadden, executive assistant...
...been born 100 years later, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Class of 1885, might have been among them. It was Thayer, a Lampoon president who authored the most famous piece of writing about baseball in history--the ballad "Casey at the Bat"--as the "funny man" for the San Francisco Examiner...
...undergraduate at Harvard, Thayer achieved literary distinction in almost every way possible. In addition to being president of the Lampoon, Thayer was chosen to be the Class Day Ivy orator. And as a junior, he wrote the Hasty Pudding play...
...friend of Thayer's from the Lampoon named William Randolph Hearst--who was expelled from Harvard and never graduated, because of a fondness for practical jokes--took over the Examiner shortly after Thayer graduated...
John Aboud is President of The Lampoon...