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Another solid point about the 'Poon is its light verse. In this issue Updike's contributions are outstanding, but Henry Ziegler, although not at his best, has also written some amusing verse. The cartoons are not particularly funny; they are to a marked degree unsuccessful attempts to duplicate Addams' sense of the weird and unexpected...
Douglas Bunce's brightly-drawn cover may fool some readers as to the true nature of the 'Poon this month, but the first story in the issue should dispell all naive notions. Titled "Enlightenment," its only virtue is John Updike's ability to catch the subtle pomposities of faculty conversations. As a story or essay it is inscrutable, and one puzzles as to how it worked its way into the pages of the 'Poon...
While he was on the 'Poon staff, Wil- liam Randolph Hearst '88 became business manager. According to Santayana, many students resented Hearst's habit of smoking long cigars while strolling through the Yard; they considered it a tasteless exhibition and a showing off of his wealth. Hearst did, however, provide the Lampoon with a luxurious new building, and Santayana notes that "he could sell...
...slang is used in one of his cartoons in the 'Poon's 1885 volume, which depicts a matronly woman pointing with pride to a portrait of a sanctimonious-looking minister. She is saying to the young man with her. "And this is my son the canon." The young man "becoming a bit bored," replies, "Ah yes, I have always heard there were a great many big guns in your family...
John Updike once again has done most of the literacy and art work for the 'Poon, and while his writing is clear and witty as usual, mass production seems to have dulled his choice of material. One poem treats the case of the intellectual whose appreciation of literature has one fatal crack--an inability to appreciate Pogo. This sort of thing has been written in the past about Chaplin, Mickey Mouse, and Li'l Abner. It is hardly an exciting theme, but Updike treats it quite as well as anyone has in the past. Far better is his theme-poem...