Word: lampooning
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...result of its limitations, the Gazette can get tedious, and Lord is the first to admit it. She still giggles over a Lampoon parody of her paper: "page after page, a boring list of names--'The Gazette Announces...'it was excellent." Yet she expresses a good deal of pride in the publication as well: "We view ourselves as a very proper, mellifluous Bostonian: sensationalism is not our thing." The perfect University PR people are "writers who love Harvard, who love the written word, and love to do features," she says. Under Lord's direction, the Gazette has spruced...
More characteristic of the attitude toward problems outside of Cambridge was a prank perpetrated by Crimson editors two years earlier. After stealing the sacred mascot of the Lampoon--a large metal stork--the Crimson gave the bird to the Soviet embassy in Washington, a gift from American students to Joseph Stalin. The Lampoon promptly contacted McCarthy's committee to report an incident of obvious Communist sympathizing...
...with an interest in good writing, I do not read the Lampoon and I do not remember having looked at a Yearbook during my 20 years at Harvard. However, there is a first time for everything. This week some students asked me to read the Adams House section of the Yearbook, and I must tell you that I found the attempt at humor stale, offensive and inappropriate...
...group of seniors sunning themselves outside the library steps bear out Erickson's words. "The only time I go into the library is to check out the comics," says one. He pauses, and then corrects himself: "I guess I read National Lampoon there, too." "You don't study in the library," volunteers another. "You take breaks. And the incentive to take breaks is there...
...group will also receive $500 from a fund established by the Harvard Lampoon, Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said Friday. Development of student dramatic talent during the summer "strengthens dramatic performance during the academic year." Epps said...