Word: lampooner
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Kennedy spends his life treading the uncertain margins that lie between second-generation immigrant and Harvard student, between Catholic and humanist, between Perspective and Lampoon, between himself and his "second conscience," always "keeping tabs...
...Lampoon isn't Kennedyesque for other reasons. Most glaringly, it doesn't seem to mesh with Kennedy's focus on "rational discussion." The Lampoon is almost as well known for its drug-infested bashes as for its publications...
...explanation for Kennedy's Lampoon membership may lie in his long-felt need not to take himself too seriously. According to his mother, Kennedy has always handled burdens of work and stress by having a "good sense of humor." Kennedy himself insists he wants to retain a strong "sense of self-irony," as he puts...
Lane says Kennedy can be "moralistic," and explains that he's on Perspective and Lampoon because "he likes to gnaw at people, and both [organizations] allow that...
...JOSEPH KENNEDY has been vastly successful at Harvard. But these successes--and the context in which he has achieved them--sometimes betray his own desire to live life freely, to quote from both "In Living Color" and a German theologian in the same conversation, to write for Perspective and Lampoon in the same week...