Word: lampooning
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...only you could judge a book by its cover, the current edition of the Lampoon would be the most brilliant to come out in many years. How many good parodies of the Bayeux tapestry have you seen in the last millenium? David McClelland's cover brings the Norman invasion to Harvard and is much funnier than anything British advertisers produced in their summer-long camapign to sell Stout by making fun of the Battle of Hastings. If you see anyone laughing out loud at what's inside the Lampoon (and how often do you see that?), it is probably McClelland...
...rest inside is a bit more predictable, The usual calculated whimsy, the trivia, the place names, are all back making their bids for laughs, (But I did meet a girl who was thrilled that the Lampoon Playboy parody had put Chagrin Falls, Ohio, on the map.) As for the worst offense -- well, the incomparable Max Beerbohm once wrote of W. S. Gilbert that his "one notion of humorous prose was to use as many long words and as many formal constructions as possible -- a most tedious trick, much practiced by other Mid-Victorian writers." Three Lampoon pieces are guilty...
...lost three key men by graduation, two quit in favor of rugby, four were injured in our game with the Lampoon, and another resigned over our Vietnam policy," moaned Crimson sports editor emeritus Rhesus J. Portfolio after Saturday's unconvincing 23-2 victory over the Krokodiloes...
...CRIMSON'S touch football squad dominated action on the East Coast Saturday. While its varsity was trouncing the Columbia Spectator's finest in New York, the newspaper's JV's were scoring against the Harvard Lampoon here in Cambridge...
...Lampoon nearly upset the CRIMSON in the last quarter with a Statue of Liberty, but quarterback Eliot Cutler '68 was cut down at the two-yard line by Michael Sylvester...