Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...understandably, have political outbursts against Harvard disappeared. "Let's get something sraight," city councillor Alfred E. Vellucci once said, "when Harvard's for something, I'm against it." Vellucci has often taken the initiative, proposing that part of Harvard Yard be turned into a parking lot, that the Lampoon be converted into a public lavatory, and that Plympton St. be renamed Cliffie Lane. His suggestions often achieve their only purpose, publicity. But even this reflects the "political capital" that can be made on the names of Harvard and M.I.T...
Miss Wood's agent calls the Lampoon and good-naturedly demands that she be given the award in person. Describing Miss Wood as typifying "the worst in Hollywood glamor and non-acting," the Lampoon good-naturedly agrees. Miss Wood, after visiting the CRIMSON, good-naturedly thanks all the people who by helping her career made the award possible...
...pass on "pertinent information" about H. Stuart Hughes's activities during a trip he made to Europe. Harvard and M.I.T. establish a $1 million nonprofit corporation to promote planning and urban development in Cambridge. A man in Hayes Bickford's urges people to decorate the City with clothespins. The Lampoon names Natalie Wood the worst actress of this year, next year and the year after that...
Bunuel leads us along the borderline of bourgeois satire, in a vein as old as Moliere; but only briefly. Sadist Josef is an anti-Semite, and his violent Fascist explosions shatter the relatively calm surface of the satire. A visit from the cure begins as a mild lampoon of the clergy, but breaks all bounds when Madame seeks a little sex-education...
While Natalie's acting charms can break a clock, her arrival here in Cambridge will only make us lose an hour. She will arrive at Logan at 1:17 p.m. where she will be greeted by twenty Lampoon motorcycles in black tie. Don't let the display dazzle you -- be sure to set your clocks ahead an hour tonight...