Word: brio
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...speak: it is a question at least as old as moody Danes delivering English couplets. And every year, as summer approaches, we face the same dilemma: whether to try, when in Rome, to speak as the Romans do or to rely on Italian cabbies speaking English (with brio, no doubt, and sprezzatura). In some respects, it comes down to a question of whether 'tis better to give or to receive linguistic torture. The treachery of the phrase book, as every neophyte soon discovers, is that you cannot begin to follow the answer to the question you've pronounced so beautifully...
...better be ready to make the most of it. Some 16 years ago, he tried to start a community college in the Bedford Stuyvesant ghetto in Brooklyn (it failed for lack of funding). Perhaps the high point of his career was the years at CUNY where, with fighting-Irish brio, he led the fray surrounding the open-admissions policy, in the early '70s a divisive urban issue. "It was so simple at CUNY," he sighs. "There were no agendas, no politicking. Your task was clear: educate the poor. And that's what...
...associated with Hecht were in Hollywood's vocabulary virtually from the onslaught of sound in 1927. But MacAdams brings gusto to tales of Hecht's early days as a ruthless reporter and to his later, angry crusade as a pioneer Zionist. MacAdams also has a great source: Hecht's brio- filled 1954 autobiography, A Child of the Century...
...will the newest member of the morning female triumvirate do? Zahn, 33, reads the news with bright-eyed brio and overdramatic retards at the end of each story. ("At least five . . . have been reported . . . killed.") She has solid journalistic credentials -- nine years in local reporting and anchor slots before joining ABC News in 1987 -- and soft brown hair. Oh, yes, and she has an eight-month-old daughter at home. Looks like she came to play...
These days, with his Lincoln labors behind him, Safire is writing his column with brio at an age when most columnists give way to pretentious punditry. Last week Safire returned for the first time in 13 months to a format that has become a personal trademark: a mind-reading column that provocatively depicts Kremlin politics through Gorbachev's inner thoughts. This Gorbachev, still a wily foe of the West, miraculously shares Safire's gift for language, describing his political philosophy as "improvisationism" and his goal as creating in Europe "a Balance of Impotence until Russia can rebuild." That...