Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Neither the deans nor the police seem to be up for a pitched battle this year," Robert Hoffman, a member of the Harvard Lampoon, said yesterday...
...Lampoon's planned re-enactment of the battle of Hastings will have to be put off for another century. By then, perhaps, the police will have developed a sense of humor...
Members of the Lampoon had fairly definite ideas about how the 900th aniversary of the battle should be celebrated. With profits gained from their sell-out Playboy parody, the Poonies had ordered Navy surplus rafts in which the invaders were to cross the Charles, $600 worth of harmless bows and arrows which were being manufactured for them specially, and blue-prints for a catapult loaded with 1000 tennis balls were in the making...
There had been some question about where the skirmish should take place. At first the Poonies wanted to stage it in front of the Lampoon castle on Mt. Auburn St., but later they conceded that it might be safer in Soldiers Field...
...elephants, he continued, has the longest tusks in the world. Among other details to be worked out, the Lampoon has ordered 100 bows and harmless arrows...