Word: lampooning
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...Bickford's. Since then, the lady with the world's stoutest smile has cheered her customers in sports, counseled them in love, sympathized when they broke up with their girl friends and watched them get married. In return, the Register has picked her as an honorary freshman advisor, the Lampoon cast her in an "impromptu production," and the Hasty Pudding always gave her their best seats...
...Lampoon has announced the election of the following officers: Jonathan F. Cerf '68 of Lowell House and New York, president; Peter J. Gabel '68 of Lowell House and New York, Ibis; and Conn Nugent '68 of Leverett House and Larchmont, New York, Narthex...
...With sparser details and stronger endings, his stories will be gems. Conn Nugent's revelation that Harvard football victories depress the economy is off-beat and has an angle--the sort of amusing fact-twisting that the Yale Record is more inclined to do, but very welcome in the Lampoon...
Perhaps this Lampoon will go down as the one that began the format revolution. Rumor has it that the newly-introduced Table-of-Contents, which brings the contributors off of the musty mast-head, is only the first step in Lampoon president Walker Lewis' drive to reform the layout. McClelland is digging up new type-faces so that the 'Poon can send the stupifying Bodoni back to the Congressional Record. The new look includes photographs, and the full-page ones in this issue are of Harvard's beautiful people." They must have been taken either by W. Laney Thornton...
...very literate Lafpoon, and one with the same possibilities that the Ugly Duckling promised. But it is as unprovocative as it can be. If the good burghers of Bayeux ever see a copy, they may mutter a few "Sacre bleus," but who else could it provoke? Even the Lampoon's toothless progenitor, Punch, doesn't shy away from talking politics. Nor should the Lampoon, which never takes a stand, never catches you unawares, never makes you drop your jaw and the magazine at an outrageous line. In olden days, jesters felt obliged to insult monarchs. It is time that...