Word: lampooning
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...Lampoon, the semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, seems still to display its perennial problems. A lack of leadership, a homogenous membership and a culturally ingrained opposition to publishing anything that provokes even the subtlest chuckle all continue to plague the would-be jokesters. Humbly, I propose a few policy changes at the Bow Street castle...
After reading “A Dove in Hawk’s Clothing,” by Travis R. Kavulla ’06, I was baffled as to whether I was reading The Crimson or the Lampoon (Comment, April 1.) One usually expects a commentary piece to pay at least partial tribute to reality...
Danny has worked for the National Lampoon, the “Tonight Show” and “Seinfeld,” and now has a steady gig with “Drew Carey...
...rarefied academic environments. They know what they think. In a recent interview Wolfowitz told TIME, "I believe this country is what it stands for, more than anything else. If we're not true to our principles, we're not serving our national interest." He bridles at the way some lampoon him, as if he believes that, with U.S. intervention, Jeffersonian democracy will pop up in the Middle East like mushrooms after a storm. But he explicitly links the growth of democracy to America's interests. "The tendency toward successful representative self-government," he told TIME, "works for the benefit...
Clearly, this website wants us to be skeptical about the war, but it doesn’t go far enough in making people think critically about the conflict. Sure, it mocks the oil aspect of the war, but this lampoon adds little substance to the debate. The way to elicit sober reflection about the conflict is to force every American to bet on these four fundamental propositions...