Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after the conversation begins, although, as one airline hostess notes, "When someone starts paying for your drinks, it's a kind of obligation." If both parties fail to turn each other on, the girl thinks nothing of paying her bill, moving to another table and hoping for better luck. Even when the man turns out to be "absolutely gorgeous" (it can happen: Denver's Carriage Inn, open four years, claims 35 marriages), the most a girl is expected to yield on first encounter is her telephone number. Explains one Manhattan junior editoress, stressing the fine distinctions: "These...
...having expended his gifts unwisely, particularly his second wife, a mentally unstable and drug-ridden singer. Though Kennedy's fate and Doremus' have far different origins, the twice-bereaved Barney finds a bleak common moral: "Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world...
...Good luck to you and Finance Director Smith in eliminating the "fat" at the University. Lars G. Sandberg Assistant Professor of Economics
...inability to establish close relationships with women, argues the author, stemmed from his admitted "extreme physical modesty" and a feeling that the desired "ideal of mutual understanding" was unattainable in marriage. Van Dusen also points out that Hammarskjold was too much of an intellectual prig to have had much luck with women anyway. When a friend once asked him why he was not interested in an attractive Swedish girl, Hammarskjold solemnly replied: "She didn't appreciate T. S. Eliot...
...authenticity of the prison argot. As a ten-time loser who has spent a good part of his first 35 years in reformatories and jails, Genet doubtless knows the con's language like a native, but when it comes to English equivalents, Translator Frechtman has no luck at all. Genet, who is a practicing pervert and retired male prostitute, presumably knows the camp language exchanged by consenting adults. And it is hard to believe, for example, that a kiss between homosexual males should be described as "a smack"-a word which had some facetious currency about the time...