Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Lampoon died recently at its home, 44 Bow Street, Cambridge, Mass. Its age was 92 and it had been ill for some time...
Exact cause of death has not yet been determined. Heart specialists conjectured that death was caused by an inborn misconception of format: The Lampoon's rigid structure, dominated by the short story form, inhibited free circulation of wit and frustrated doctors' attempts to heal...
...Alderney in the Channel Islands. He learned how to sail, and he learned the deaf-blind language so that, year after year, he could entertain members of a deaf-blind society whom he invited to Alderney. In 1957 he revised The Once and Future King, softening a nasty lampoon of his nasty mother (Queen Morgause, the witch...
...were dark doings in Freedom Square yesterday, as city authorities pursued an elusive band of cutthroats and vandals. Ominous reports began to pour in sometime after 3 a.m. They told of drunken youths driving around in a Black Cadillac, of suggestive noises from within the confines of the Harvard Lampoon, and of cloaked figures roaming about atop the Lampoon building...
...from The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post and Collier's. His four years in Cambridge were marked by a series of triumphs, marred only by his failure three times running to get accepted into Poet Archibald MacLeish's creative-writing seminar. He poured his energies into the Lampoon, the undergraduate humor magazine. At the end of his sophomore year, he met a fine-arts major at Radcliffe named Mary Pennington, two years his senior and the daughter of a Unitarian minister in Chicago. "I courted her essentially by falling down the stairs of the Fogg Museum several times...