Word: pranking
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...encouraged to see in your story about designing a new keyboard [Jan. 26] that at last there may be a typewriter that makes sense. I have always had a sneaking suspicion that the inventor of the QWERTY system had a good laugh at the prank he perpetrated on the world...
...Whether this was a prank or a more serious, racially-motivated incident, the cross-burning is an affront to all Williams students," senior Stephen Willard said yesterday...
Knapp, for example, tries to penetrate his wife's loneliness with an insensitive sexual prank that involves a duck's foot taken from a Chinese restaurant. Louise doesn't see the humor: "Is this what you and the New York girls are into?" Hardly, as Nina can verify. She suggests that Knapp uses her apartment as a refuge, and he comes to see her point: "She was right that he hid in her apartment. He was hiding from himself, or at best playing peekaboo, pretending it was a safe game and that there were only little surprises...
...self-satisfaction. Harvard hired maids to clean student rooms and make beds until 1953. Schoolwork sometimes interceded in the quest for a good time, but several class members allude to the easy availability of the "gentleman's C." The early '50s were the golden age of the college prank. For example, two Harvard band members were arrested in October 1953 for staging an impromptu 3 a.m. concert on Yale's Old Campus. The most elaborate stunt may have been The Crimson's theft of the Lampoon's symbol, its beloved Ibis, in April 1953. The Crimson then donated the statue...
...this prank laughs off a more serious theme of the class's years here. McCarthy scared Harvard. Charging that the faculty was "pink-tinged," he created an atmosphere of mistrust and precipitated internal struggles at the University. David L. Shapiro, professor of Law, says, "The fact of McCarthyism was our significant external concern--the only time we felt acutely the presence of the outside world...