Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Lampoon, Harvard Latin American Association, H-R Undergraduate Mathematics Society, Harvard Mountaineering Club, Harvard Music Club, Harvard Natural History Society, H-R November Ninth Committee, H-R Organ Society, Harvard Outing Club, Inc., Harvard Parachute Club...
...popular theory is to blame all the Lampoon's woes upon last summer's issue, The Playboy Parody--a mercenary, bulky enterprise which netted over $150,000. According to lampologists, the poonies spent the next six months bickering over how to spend it all and still maintain their tax-exempt status. In the meantime they forget, or didn't care, about the high-quality humor of the good-old-day (which, by the way, not even the most ancient Cambridge observers can recall...
Actually, there was no great struggle in the Lampoon this winter or anything like that. In short, the newly elected leaders (who had been de facto leaders for half the previous year) calmly drove many Lampoon members away, leaving no one but charming, neurotic insiders and the obtusely dull hangers-on. While this cultural revolution was underway this spring, the Lampoonproduced virtually nothing. Their "Movies Worst" issue, two months late for the first time in memory, failed even to produce the humor innate in the conventional forms of that issue...
...when the Lampoon to publish a summer issue, it could elicit nothing but subtle smirks from the waiting readers. The issue is now out, however, and the effects of the cultural revolution are salient: the 20-page production contains only seven meager articles (none related to each other), costs a piddling 35 cents on the newstands (or free in Bow Street trash barrels), and is generally...
Otherwise, this Lampoon is rescued only by newcomer Nicholas Pilavachi, a freshman who contributes the bulk (i.e., two articles) of the issue. His first, "An Indian serenade," is written in such a self-conscious style that it is painful reading. His second, "Of Streetlamps and Fire Hydrants," is light and clever. It should be some time before the older poonies can teach him how to force humor...