Word: pranks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the critic is honestly angry at the artist, or perhaps this is just another way of showing the old anxiety and confusion, an uncertainty as to what he's expected to say in the face of this...this genius?...this prank...this outrage! For every time the critic becomes serious the artist giggles, and when our critic laughs along with him the artist suddenly turns spooky, funeral. The critic feels like a bug and strikes back with "if we should dignify it by the name of art at all in poor taste unwashed ill mannered self-indulgent...adolescent...childish...
...Gold Coast is to the Gold Coast Valeteria, so the Harvard prank of yesterday is to the prank of today. The finely wrought practical joke of the past had the excitement of a shaving cream fight, the sophisticated delicacy of a neurosurgical operation, the cold reality of J. Edgar Hoover breathing down its neck, and usually a large dose of University Hall. The only remaining tradition in the hoax-and-dagger line is the stealing of the Lampoon lbis from its perch atop the Lampoon building...
...their room. They live in fear of humorless student commanders, who rule their daily lives. This month two cadets were expelled and one suspended when the cadet brigade commander learned that they had returned to campus after a drinking spree and sprayed each other with a fire extinguisher-a prank that would have drawn little more than tolerant laughs at most other schools. Even so, PMC has turned soft, complains Senior Cadet James W. McConnell, president of the student council. "When we came here as freshmen it was much better-all military," he says...
...More Bull. Stopping for a few casual words with incoming workers as he left the mill, Held next drove to the Lock Haven airport, where he shot at Switchboard Operator Gerry Ramm four times, wounding her twice. Thinking it was a prank, the airport manager hustled Held outside without a protest. Then Held's obsession sent him to the Sugar Valley School, where three of his own children and some 500 others had been locked inside after police had notified the principal of Held's rampage. After circling the school, Held drove home and invaded the house...
Eleven years ago, the play which struck New York as daring and venturesome was the ill-fated Broadway production of Waiting for Godot. Today, the same nerves have apparently been hit by the highly profitable Off-Broadway prank, MacBird. Obviously, these works have little in common aside from their relative popular momentum and their respective pans from Walter Kerr. Beckett's sad farce, already found on at least three Harvard reading lists, seems firmly included in the century's catalogue of major literature. Barbara Garson, on the other hand, has chosen quite deliberately to write on water in order...