Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Lampoon, after two close calls with Federal authorities, reported yesterday a complete sellout (600,000 copies) of their July parody of Mademoiselle. The national fashion magazine had turned over its plant to the college humor...
...CRIMSON immediately received about 1000 coupons from gullible women throughout the country. Post Office officials, aware of the stunt by the increased mail volume, originally took a dim view of it but later agreed--at the CRIMSON'S suggestion--to forward all "Reduce-a-Leg" mail to the Lampoon...
...proofreading, copy editing, and layout, the course enjoys an outstanding roster of lecturers: editors (Edward Weeks of The Atlantic Monthly), writers (John Updike), Presidents of films (Barney Ross of the recently notorious Grove Press), and Art Directors (Cipe Pinellas of Mademoiselle who enlarged upon the details of the Lampoon's recent forays there...
...characters of Williams' The Rose Tattoo, Kopit's people are named with florid symbolism-Madame Rosepettle, Rosalie, Commodore Roseabove, Rosalinda the Fish-but without even the simplest clue to the possible significance of all the roses. Yet the sum of all this is more than derivative lampoon and parody. Full of primary humor and insight, it is cohesively and originally a comic play...
...Decay: The theme of Harvard as a kind of graveyard, a might mausoleum runs through Cunliffe's piece as a leitmotif. He quotes a friend as predicting that Harvard may yet come to be called "the forest Lawn of the East Coast." He goes on: "the Lampoon used to be a funny magazine. Now it's like the embalmers' Monthly...