Word: larking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: SYMPHONY NO. 6, THE LARK ASCENDING (Angel). Because it was completed in 1947, this brilliant, troubling work is usually thought to be about World War II. The composer denied it, but the first three movements make up a harrowing musical storm that subsides at last into a serene speculation for strings inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest: "We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep." The Lark Ascending is a delicate, attenuated tone poem for violin, played by Hugh Bean with proper lyricism. Conducting the New Philharmonia...
...like birds with golden wings the measured bell notes fly outward and upward, passing with clear and faint regret the ultimate slender rush of cross and spire; and how like the plummet lark the echo, singing, falls...
...political economics at Harvard, went on to the London School of Economics and Paris' Ecole des Sciences Politiques. In 1948-49, he strapped on a knapsack and took off on a round-the-world trip. To avoid postwar red tape and to have a bit of a lark, he forged his visas and slipped illegally into Hungary, Poland and Yugoslavia, where he was caught, locked up and then expelled. In Arab-held Jerusalem, after asking too many questions, he was arrested as an Israeli...
...songs from the show are agreeably Beatley. They include a softly' sudsy ditty called The Fool on the Hill; a toe-tapping piece that may serve as a generational link, Your Mother Should Know ("though she was born a long, long time ago"); and a wild lark called I Am the Walrus, with fast, fractured Lennonesque lyrics: "Man, you been a naughty boy. You let your face grow long." Side 2 contains such classics as Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields Forever, and the youthfully poignant Hello Goodbye ("I don't know why you say goodbye. I say hello...
...noting that "unfortunately, many marijuana users do not have the same apprehension or fear concerning its use as they do of the physically addictive drugs. This, I feel, is one of the real dangers which permeates the problem. Marijuana is likely to be used, at least initially, as a lark, as an adventure without fear of serious consequences. Thus, the first and apparently innocuous step may be taken in a succession of others possibly leading to drastic results...