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...After graduating with Middlesex’s highest honors, Sunstein brought his intellectual curiosity and his Advanced Placement credits to Harvard in the fall of 1972, where he set out on an Advanced Standing track in English. A Currier resident, Sunstein belonged to the Hasty Pudding and the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine.Kurt E. Andersen ’76, a novelist, political writer, and former ’Poon editor, remembers Sunstein as “a dry and funny writer,” with...
...join the circus.”The networks of these early pioneers were more closed and exclusive than they are at present. Their connections stemmed from shared college experiences, such as House affiliation and extracurriculars, rather than any official organization. One such focal point was the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. The Lampoon name, Mostow said, was a Hollywood calling card. It granted access to a social group of Hollywood professionals—mainly comedy writers—including admittance to a weekly poker night.For some...
...said that this whole Lampoon was worthless except for one person, and that was John Updike,” he said, recalling a review of the humor magazine that he penned...
...Rather than relish the praise, according to Maccoby, Updike walked to The Crimson to tell Maccoby that he had caused a “big problem” with Updike’s colleagues on The Lampoon, who were suspicious of what they thought was becoming “a special relationship” between the two eventual leaders...
...John certainly wasn’t a recluse,” said former Lampoon writer Eric B. Wentworth ’54, “but he wasn’t a highly gregarious guy.” He didn’t have time to devote to politics or parties, according to Wentworth, who lived in Lowell House with Updike...