Word: elan
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Lindbergh was a thorough professional, but he seemed to suggest a wonderful elan, a sense that anything is possible. That deep urge for individual adventure remains. Sometimes it merely involves robust hobbies - banging down white-water canyons in rubber rafts, hang gliding on the thermal currents, roping up the faces of cliffs. But beyond weekend diversion, there remains a vast array of exploration and adventure. It ranges, says Apollo 9 Astronaut Russell ("Rusty") Schweickart, "from the massive NASA kind of exploration to some intermediary type, such as Jacques Cousteau's efforts, where there is no question that the driving...
...opening performance of the Burton was followed by Jean-Pierre Dautricourt's Elan I, II for two flutes, composed in 1976. The work is written in a stream of consciousness vein, although the development is in fact somewhat controlled. Nevertheless, Elan sounds almost aleatoric in places; that is, the actual notes played in any one performance are determined by the whim of the performer, although the catalogue of choices for these notes is usually written out by the composer...
...price above face value is an illegal practice; Dave Matthews, director of sports information, says he is aware of the existence of scalpers and that they are "frowned upon." But they are there, and they flout University regulations--and often the norms of human decency--openly and with elan...
...much Jenner would break Avilov's world record of 8,454. The powerfully built (6 ft. 2 in., 195 lb.) Jenner had run faster, thrown farther and jumped higher and longer than ever in his life. "I'm sitting pretty," he said, with typical elan. "All I have to do is show up tomorrow...
Congressman Elan Bright: A flamboyant fellow, he hires Liz at taxpayers' expense as a kind of sexy mascot, occasionally has her chaperon one of his girl friends shipped in from the home district. But her prime job is to take care of other important legislators-sometimes at orgies staged by him-so that he can win political favors from them...