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...Introduction to The Harvard Lampoon Centennial Celebration 1876-1973" (he was Lampoon president in former days), there is a hilarious description of that organization, where he reminds us aptly that "The Lampoon is saved from mere sociable fatuity by being also The Lampoon, a magazine...
...went last week in Boston, where Harvard President Derek Bok, Author George Plimpton and 500 other old Crimsons watched the king-sized economist, now 67, honored as Harvard's "funniest professor in 100 years." The festivities, all part of the centennial celebration of the Harvard Lampoon, included a cash prize of $10,000, which Galbraith promptly donated to the university's Fogg Museum, noting that "nothing so fittingly caps an unsuccessful academic career at Harvard as recognition, however belated, by the Lampoon." But the Poonies got the last jab when they rolled out an additional gift...
ZEPPO, THE MISSING KENNEDY BROTHER, announced one headline. CAN HOMOS BE DENTISTS? asked another. ZEN AND THE ART OF METHADONE MAINTENANCE, read a third. It was only an irreverent National Lampoon parody of a relative newcomer to the U.S. magazine scene, New Times, but some readers might have taken it for the real thing. Along with eye-grabbing covers-a grisly painting of John Kennedy at the instant of his assassination; a shot of a grinning skin-mag publisher lying nude under a heap of life-size plastic porn dolls-New Times's most familiar trademark is an addiction...
Last Friday night I had the impossibly difficult responsibility of protecting the Busch-Reisinger Museum's priceless artworks from being damaged during an unrestrained Harvard Lampoon dinner party. The other security guards and I saw the Busch-Reisinger resemble a circus or night-club much more than a museum. Clowns juggling. costumed lampooners and rowdy, intoxicated people of all ages, nursed by six open bars did their utmost to make a travesty that I somehow doubt the painters and sculptors intended their works to endure...
...left the museum early Saturday morning feeling angry and frustated. I do not object to the Lampoon spending tens of thousands of dollars in celebrating their centennial year. It is their money to spend as they wish. A museum, however, hardly seems the place to hold such a party. I am disillusioned with the curators of the Busch-Reisinger who displayed such poor judgment in authorizing this spectacle...