Word: lampooning
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Arriving at Harvard, Updike did comp the Lampoon, contributing a steady stream of cartoons, comic poems, and sketches and rising quickly through the ranks of editorship. By the beginning of 1953, after bearing the titles “Narthex” and “Ibis,” Updike was elected the publication’s president...
...says Updike’s Lampoon colleagues assumed he was destined for great things...
...John was slightly ill at ease with some of the people at the Lampoon who, let’s face it, were from more privileged backgrounds,” he explains...
Updike ruled over the Lampoon Castle during an eventful period, thanks to a series of pranks originating both inside and outside the building. In one case, the president and his colleagues succeeded in “kidnapping” the Mass...
governor by leading him to the Lampoon instead of to the Young Democrats reception where he was supposed to speak...