Word: spooner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When many of Spooner's classmates look back at their Harvard years, they come up with phrases that sound like flashy book titles...
Perry Smith also spent a lot of time writing, but he too found time for non-literary events at the Lampoon Spooner, also a Lampoon alumnus, recalls that during Phool's Week, the organization's initiation period. Smith "dressed a Phool up as Santa Claus and had other Phools attack him in downtown Boston...
These men were part of the generation too young for Korea and "just too old for Viet Nam." Spooner says. "We were never threatened the feeling then was 'we are immune to everything and everything wonderful was going to happen to us.' That's what my first novel was about," he continues. He reflects for a moment, "Actually, that's what most first novels are about...
Passersby were so distressed by the sight that they soon came to Santa's aid and joined an increasingly unwieldy melee. "We were quickly bailed out of jail." Spooner says...
Within this time frame, the Class of '59 welcomed the opportunity to be "opened up like a sardine can," as Spooner says to listen to Joan Baez, who sang regularly at Tullah's a coffee house on Mt. Auburn Street...