Word: larking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would like to protest your protest of the anti-protest protest. To the extent that the protest was a parody, you snub it as indifferent and pointless. To the extent that it was a sky lark, you are shocked at this rejection of political commitment and motivation. Yet it is obvious that you miss the point of the protest. It was meant as support for the Administration or even as a parody of "SDS types." It was rather to protest students taking themselves too seriously...
...himself. But I figured I'd better get up there because he said he might do something drastic if he couldn't talk to someone." What James wanted to talk about, it turned out, was his twelve years as a Russian spy, which he described as "a lark to make some money." Lyman urged James to do "what mother always taught us - be honest," and call the FBI. James did, and within hours agents were up at the mountain questioning...
...started as something of a lark, just 100 years ago. On Dec. 24, 1865, in Pulaski, Tenn., six young ex-Confederate officers, looking for something to occupy their time, got together to form a club. Like college kids, they gave the club all the trappings of a fraternity-mysterious rites, initiations, secret words. For a name, they hit on the Greek word for circle, kyklos, gave it a few twists and came up with Ku Klux Klan. For kicks, they made robes and hoods out of bedsheets and pillowcases, and took to riding sheet-draped horses solemnly through the town...
...nearly 6,000 bishops, rabbis, ministers, priests and nuns felt the call to march in Alabama with Martin Luther King. Last week, most of them were back home, wondering what happens next to "the spirit of Selma." Was it, in effect, something of a spiritual lark-a chance for conscience-stricken clergymen to win their merit badges in the civil rights revolution? Or was it a genuinely charismatic event, justifying the euphoria of the Rev. Stanley Hallett, Director of Planning for the Church Federation of Greater Chicago...
February's Cosmopolitan made some disparaging remarks about an author named Helen Gurley Brown. "Despite her book, Sex and the Office, which equates the office affair with a gay lark," the article admonished, Mrs. Brown has the wrong slant. "Career girls who have been burned or who have seen their friends burned, offer one loud word of advice, 'Don't!' " Now Hearst's Cosmopolitan seems to have changed its mind. Last week Helen Gurley Brown, 43, was named editor...