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...confused associations, illustrating that he is less confident, and probably a damned sight more muddled than they. The piece is signed with the initials "HTC" and, as no corresponding name may be found on the masthead, I assume it to be the work of H. Todd Cobey, Lampoon Narthex. Substitution of the improbable monicker "Wyeth Wonderbar" for this office is a typical bit of Lampoon tomfoolery...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: The Harvard Lampoon | 10/1/1964 | See Source »

...structure. The main altar faces across the narrowest part of the nave toward an upper chapel, so that in effect the nave's long dimension becomes a transept, terminated east and west by smaller altars. Architect Michelucci has also departed from custom by en folding the narthex, or entrance portico, in a gentle cloister; the church swallows its own entrance. The whole is asymmetrical, forcing the worshiper into the relaxed mood Michelucci wanted. As he says, "This church is a little city in which men should meet and recognize in each other the common hope of finding each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Superhighway Church | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

Named to the hazardous perch of Ibis was Daniel R. Shulman '65-6, of Eliot House and Westport, Conn. Peter W. Johnson '66 of Eliot House and Wilton, Conn., will serve as Narthex...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Poon Picks Officers; Weil Elected Gadfly | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

Woodword A. Wickham '64, of Quincy House and Jackson, Mich., was elected president of the Harvard Lampoon for next year. Other officers are Lawrence M. Butler '64, of Quincy House and Chelsea; Jeffrey L. Steingarten '64, of Adams House and Hewlett Neck, N.Y., Narthex; Stevenson Mclivaine '63-3, of Eliot House and Middleburg, Va., treasurer; and Robert D. Swezey '62-3, of Lowell House and Washington, D.C., secretary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampoon' Elects | 12/18/1962 | See Source »

Other officers are Lawrence M. Butler '64, of Quincy House and Chelsea, Narthex; Michael J. Goodkin '63, of Eliot House and Merrick, N.Y., Treasurer; and Marshal Field III '63, Adams House and Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampoon, Advocate Elect 1962 Officers | 12/14/1961 | See Source »

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