Word: larking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lark. Training-school officials have to tread a thin line between mak ing school a pleasant experience in rehabilitation and just a vacation from city life. Warwick Superintendent A. Alfred Cohen says that his school is "an abnormally good environment" for the boys, but if they stay too long they will not be able to adjust to conditions at home. California's Nelles School al lows its boys to watch late-night movies on television, visit movie studios on field trips, attend monthly birthday parties. But some deliberately misbehave in order to stay longer and a few teachers think...
...little girl against the big odds-in Skyscraper she is against the builders who destroy cities; in the past she has opposed such formidable enemies as the police (Shot in the Dark), the boxing profession (Requiem for a Heavyweight) and all of England (as Joan of Arc in The Lark). And now, as always, she beats the odds in her own special way, winning even when she loses-in The Lark she lost her life but won immortality; in Skyscraper she loses her brownstone but walks off with a large bankroll, a rich husband and the show...
...seldom heard today as to sound strangely neuter at first hearing. But once the ear adapts to Deller's pure, vibratoless voice spiraling effortlessly up through the range of the female alto, the effect is entrancing. In two Handel arias, it floated lightly and lonely as a lark above the bustle of the orchestra. The performance had all the fresh appeal of a lost art rediscovered, which, in fact, it is. Deller is now 53, but when he first achieved recognition, he was the first virtuoso countertenor in 120 years. Almost singlehanded he has sparked a revival of interest...
Politics captured the attention of some of the freshmen, but most were given to more lighthearted pursuits. In the Spring of 1937, for instance, 1500 students attended a hoax lecture on birth control. The biggest lark of the season, though, was the riot. It started innocently enough one May evening with a water fight on Plympton St. A crowd gathered, and by midnight some 2500 students had packed the Square. The rioters strained the patience of the Cambridge police by disconnecting the power lines of three trolleys, thus rendering them unfit to carry passengers. Finally the police used tear...
Male Hunt is a French comedy that hangs precariously on the supposition that good plots come in threes. Its loosely interwoven stories are one part nimble New Wave lark, one part vintage boudoir farce, one part homogenized Hollywood...