Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nieman Foundation. Harvard publications were each asked to submit some dozen pieces to the Prize Committee, which in its turn, submitted to the three judges about one-third of this total. First winner of the award, was Clement B. Wood, Jr. '49, for a short story in the Lampoon, A Very Young Rabbit...
Hitherto unreliable sources have issued the unconfirmed report that Beat the Devil is a lampoon of The Maltese Falcon. Now there may be some who hate the thought of that picture being spoofed, and others who feel it needs no spoofing, but they can simply regard Beat the Devil as a general satire on Hollywood's preoccupation with undercover men. At any rate, this is one motion picture not to be taken seriously...
Jack Winter '62, President of the Lampoon, admitted that the quality of an actor's performance was not the final criterion in making the awards. "Actually, what we want is publicity. We're willing to give it to any big name actor who will come up here to accept...
After a hastily called conference of Lampoon editors, they released the following official statement: "It has always been our purpose to laugh with people--not at them. Had we realised that we were inadvertently slurring the name of a hard-working, child-and-horse-loving actor of Mr. Mineo's caliber, it would have been completely beyond the range of possibility for us to have given him this award. As for the confusion between the Lampoon and the CRIMSON, it is quite understandable since the two words sound identical when repeated quickly...
...Lampoon denied having tried for years to identify its name with that of the CRIMSON. When pressed about Lampoon parodies of the CRIMSON and about a letter which the Lampoon sent to President Truman in 1946, offering him an honorary editorship of the CRIMSON, President Winter denied all responsibility. "The Advocate keeps doing things like that," he said...