Word: lampooner
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...excitement of a shaving cream fight, the sophisticated delicacy of a neurosurgical operation, the cold reality of J. Edgar Hoover breathing down its neck, and usually a large dose of University Hall. The only remaining tradition in the hoax-and-dagger line is the stealing of the Lampoon lbis from its perch atop the Lampoon building...
...solution was to lampoon 17th and 18th century composers. Schickele avoided trying to spoof modern music, which he thinks is beyond satire; parodies of contemporary pieces "sound just like good contemporary pieces." Another solution was to write music for films (Crazy Quilt) and record al bums (Joan Baez, Buffy Sainte-Marie). An enemy of the idea that every piece has to be "a big deal," he composed deliberately casual chamber works for parties and coffeehouses. Mostly for his own amusement, he wrote ragtime piano pieces and rock 'n' roll songs...
...That Ibis is no chicken," cracked La Farge, carrying the winged creature back to his perch on the Lampoon's Kaiser Wilhelm helmet cupola...
...Harvard Lampoon won back its Ibis Wednesday, not to mention the respect of admirers of good-sportsman-ship everywhere. The gentle Poonies found the legendary bird at the bottom of the Adams House swimming pool at the end of a three-and-a-half hour Treasure Hunt sponsored by the Harvard CRIMSON...
...team of Poonies, having combed Cambridge landmarks and badgered merchants for clues, deciphered the final conundrum. By 2:28, Lampoon President La Farge was undressing at pool's edge, and in another minute was paddling towards the pool's littoral regions with Ibis in a fireman's carry...