Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Lampoon published a little book about itself, the first chapter of which described the Lampoon building in some detail. "The roof of the tower," it said, "is capped by a fantastic copper finial which terminates in a large and meditative Ibis...
...literary level, The Leopard offers a magnificent interplay of ironies. Sometimes the satire strikes at the right: in one stunning vignette, Director Visconti (who in private life is the Count of Modrone) executes a mortal lampoon of the old nobility. The Prince and his family, after a long and dusty journey, go straight to church, and there the camera finds them grey with dust and incense and fatigue, propped in their gloomy niches like medieval effigies, like spirits of the dead come back to haunt the living. Sometimes the laugh is on the Left: at the Ponteleone Ball, which fills...
...Fenwick's spacemen get to the moon just ahead of the Americans and Russians, they plant their flag, turn to the arrivals, and say: "Oh, good evening there. Grand Fenwick welcomes you to its moon," and invite them all to a chicken dinner. But long before this, the lampoon loses its point, and instead of being a pungent satire on the futility of the space race, Mouse on the Moon is just a sparse farce...
...been a lot of haggling about whether Princeton really deserved as important a place as Yale on the crimson's fall schedule, but the straw that broke the Tiger's back had come from students rather than administration. On the morning of the 1926 game the then-mighty Lampoon published a special issue with a drawing of two pigs wallowing in the mud proclaiming "Come. Brother, let us root for dear old Princeton." And to cap it off, at half-time the Poonies put out a fake CRIMSON headlined "BILL ROPER, PRINCETON COACH, DIES ON FIELD". There was an explanatory...
...Princeton-Harvard bitterness had subsided, the Lampoon had not. Somewhat later in the class of 1938's freshman year, the 'Poon put out its notorious "Esquire" issue, whose contents led the University to shut down the Lampoon building for almost a month and to pressure the publication's officers into an en massage resignation...