Word: sophomoricism
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The tourney's regulations stipulate there will be three "High Commissioners of Galactic Action" whose decisions will be final; the "Commissar of communication and general Ivy League Profundity," Tim Clifford; the "Commissar of Propulsion and Meandering Sophomoric Prose," Burke St. John; and the "Commissar of Questionable creativity", none other than...
Animal House. What? You were in the States all summer and you didn't see this movie? What's the matter with you? Anyway, this is what you might call a very funny movie, if you can manage to disengage your refinement and prepare yourself to laugh at some incredibly...
Perhaps Andrew Moulter enjoys wallowing in his mudhole of tasteless, indeed sophomoric, collegiate humor, but I do not. His review of National Lampoon's "Animal House" desplays an aching lack of sensitivity to the very real human issues at stake in the education of our youth. How can Multer possibly...
Animal House is the first film project of the National Lampoon, the magazine that prides itself on raising sophomoric yuks to a fearlessly nasty pitch. The movie has the same strengths and weaknesses as its parent publication. At its best it perfectly expresses the fears and loathings of kids who...
ONCE UPON A TIME, not too many years ago, the Harvard Lampoon had a bunch of writers who were really funny. Unlike the vast majority of their predecessors and successors in the dim reaches of that silly building on Mt. Auburn St., they were given to more than the occasional...