Word: pranks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Officials were reluctant to blame the prank on Yale tricksters because the fire extinguishers found were from M.I.T...
When the glorious Crimson sent the defeated Dartmouth drunkards back to their tundra turf Saturday for the fifth consecutive year, they hoped that a notably poor prank, in the form of a parody of Cambridge's Only Breakfast Table Daily, would ease the pain of returning to unfulfilled sexual lustings and bottmoless kegs of Budweiser...
...college literary prank? Come-ons by some undergraduate entrepreneur? Not at all. These ads, sponsored by English, art, history and language departments, appear in a courses and curriculum guide that circulates on the University of California's Riverside campus. They signal a serious trend. College teaching is a beleaguered profession these days. In many colleges, enrollment is down drastically. Universities are in financial trouble. Any department's funding is determined by the number of students taking its courses, and unpopular departments are threatened with reduced budgets, dismissal of untenured professors, a cut in office space. Professors, courses and even whole...
Female viewers may respond with anything from detached amusement to fury, because the film is utterly and blissfully sexist. If a defense must be advanced for this undiplomatic realism, it is that Claude is as helpless as a blown seed. This prank of nature is the comedy's single but sufficient joke...
...prank we played on Henry Kissinger is given an odd and nasty twist for no apparent reason. Ordinary, glossy movie promotion pictures of Jill St. John, one of Henry's beautiful dates, were put into file folders, then given captions by several of the staff as we rode together on Air Force One. and periodically sent to Henry by messenger. Miss St. John was, in fact, fully clothed in all the photos. Haldeman has written that the pictures were nudes and that I forged "presidential memos to Henry complete with Nixon's 'bizarre demands' for certain types of action." That...