Word: lampoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Lampoon has announced new officers who will attempt to keep Bow St.'s funniest humor magazine on the newsstands for yet another year. President will be Samuel H. Young '61, of Kirkland House and Philadelphia; Ibis, John L. Berendt '61, of Lowell House and Syracuse, N.Y.; Narthex, J. Jeremy Johnston '61, of Lowell House and South Hadley; Treasurer, John A. Herbert '60, of Lowell House and Quincy; Secretary, George Crawford, Jr. '60, of Dunster House and Salters...
...Lampoon editors last night were contradictory in their evaluations of last Saturday's clash with the Yale police force, in which officers seized 300 copies of the 'Poon's parody football program while it was being distributed on the grounds of the Yale Bowl...
...Lampoon was able to sell its production in New Haven without incident. But when the unsuspecting editors ventured onto the grounds of the Yale Bowl, technically in West Haven, the forewarned Yale police force swooped down on them and confiscated 300 parodies...
...Lampoon editors do not agree upon the significance of the events at this point. One analysis was made last night by the vending expedition's angry leader, George Crawford '60, who accused Yale law enforcement officers of "using very poor judgement...
...illustrating this text, Bergman wobbles between drama and melodrama, alternates genuine horrors with sham tricks, comic sex with serious sex, and poetry with lampoon. Result is that The Magician is perhaps his least successful film so far. But for every murky symbol, there is a sharp physical image: footsteps become important, a thunderclap almost too real, and shafts of light through the mist startlingly beautiful. With the help of this brilliant graphic technique, a haunting guitar score, and the talented stock company of players who have turned up in all recent Bergman films. The Magician manages to fascinate...