Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...lbis, formally known as Threskiornis aethiopica, was aprocryphally donated to the Lampoon by William Randolph Hearst in 1901, when the new Lampoon building was completed. Since its first happy years with the 'Poonies, the lbis, sometimes known as Threskie, has had several leaves of absence, many of them accountable to a century-long feud between the Harvard Crimson and the Harvard Lampoon. It has been stolen twice this year already, and has just returned to its perch. Now Lampoon members are threatening a 125-volt battery to fry anyone who gets playful with their pet in the future...
...then, I am sure, for frying is only one of the penalties that have been risked for the lbis. In 1953, for example, during the tense negotiations between Americans and Korean Communists over the return of American war prisoners, the lbis flew into the national Cold War and the Lampoon rescued it only after high-level embarrassment. When the bird disappeared the Crimson was immediately suspect. The same day, April 26, Managing Editor George S. Abrams '54 and President Michael Maccoby '54 diappeared, and the Crimson was informed by anonymous phone call that they would not be returned until...
...LAMPOON was ultimately forced to release the two Crimson editors in the face of serious Federal charges, involving kidnapping invividuals and then transporting them across state lines. The lbis however was not yet returned...
...Abrams, released from their place of imprisonment in upstate New York, did not return directly to Cambridge. Instead they went to the headquarters of the Russian delegation to the U.N. at 680 Park Ave. in New York. They presented the lbis to the Russians on behalf of the Lampoon in hopes that the bird would be able to reside on top of one of the spires of Moscow University in the Kremlin. In a rare press conference, Semyon K. Tsarapkin, Deputy Representative of the U.S.S.R. to the U.N., accepted the lbis as a symbol of good-will between the students...