Word: lampooning
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...let’s not forget Arabs, Hispanics, or Asians—some of them have integrated so much they should put it on their résumés. At Harvard, minorities integrate everyday as the few, or sometimes the only one, in organizations like The Crimson, the Lampoon, the Institute of Politics, or some class. Since everyone else has gone through the fun times of integrating, why not turn the tables...
...grown into TV's sharpest topical satire. In a recent episode, a character becomes hooked on the Sony PSP, gets in an accident and hovers between life and death, only to find that the PSP was created by God as a weapon against Satan. Any cartoon that can successfully lampoon the right-to-die issue, an overhyped gadget and our apocalyptic obsessions at once is, like that PSP, heaven sent...
...addition to the crosswalks by the Coop and by Johnston Gate, plans show that a landscaped pedestrian island will be constructed on Mount Auburn Street in front of the Harvard Lampoon building...
...sketch show is also where producer Schur got his start, just a few months after leaving the College. Schur, an English concentrator in Adams House and a graduate of my high school, writes in an e-mail that the Lampoon didn’t prepare him “for anything, really. Perhaps if I had a career as a guy who lounged around drunk in poorly-maintained Flemish castles.” He wrote his thesis on David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest” and Pynchon?...
While the Lampoon-heavy writing staff of “The Simpsons” make generous use of Harvardian allusions (the curator of the Springfield Historical Society is named Hollis Hurlbut), Schur says he doesn’t rely on college for comedy. “I don’t think undergraduate experiences have really tangibly ‘shown up in my writing’ per se,” he writes, “except perhaps in some kind of Proustian/Spinozan collective conscious experience way. Please do not write that I used ‘Proustian/Spinozan collective...