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...WOULD BE just like a Crimson editor to begin review of the Lampoon Centennial book by remarking that the best prank it describes was pulled by Crimson editors: The presentation of the Lampoon's Ibis to the Soviet Union's U.N. delegation during the Cold...
...self-serving, don't you think? Even if it permitted a brief discussion of why the Ibis (that mangy, stuffed acromegalic pigeon) is such a perfect symbol for the boys and girls of the Castle. Even if it justified itself with a sociological explanation of why the Lampoon-Crimson feud has petered...
...would deny that this book is less appealing than one Riviera pear, let alone a full crate of them. But there are things to be said for it. It does not require refrigeration. It contains such handy and relatively inaccessible information as a complete list of all past Lampoon editors. It boasts two pictures of a clothed man who purports to be Martin Kaplan and one picture of a naked one who resembles Henry Kissinger. And it is consistently attractive and occasionally funny, which is more than you can say for most...
...think I am a man of wealth and taste (or at least one out of the two). If conversation flags, we can browse through it and, depending on our mood, laugh at something we concede is witty, or shake our heads and mutter, "Puerile." Both pastimes are enjoyable. The Lampoon book also makes a nice tray to carry drinks or hot dishes to the table. I suspect it would do an admirable job pressing autumn leaves, but we'll have to wait till autumn rolls around to put it to the test...
There is more. Indeed, there is a lot more. There are recountings of Lampoon history, pictures and stories of the Lampoon Castle, nutshell biographies of Lampoon greats like John Reed, Robert Benchley, and Fred Gwynne. But most of all there are chunks of Lampoon writing, including generous helpings from the parodies. The only glaring omission is the lack of material from the legendary 1965 Time parody. Otherwise, The Harvard Lampoon Centennial Celebration 1976-1973 contains a lifetime supply of Harvard humor and a fine testament to the Lampoon's unabashedly trivial last 97 years...