Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Jacksonville to Gainesville to Ocala to De Land to Sanford to Orlando to Miami, Adlai Stevenson was politicking in Florida and shaking hands with all the pumplike precision, but not the gusto, of an Estes Kefauver. In Gainesville he wandered about the University of Florida campus, answered questions from students, replied manfully when a fixed-up coed asked: "Mr. Eisenhower, may I have your autograph?" Grinned Stevenson: "How do you spell...
...category of more or less minor roles. Robert House and Fenton Hollander handle themselves with gusto and understanding. Margaret Groome, as Olga, misses her difficult characterization by a hairsbreadth. Other members of the cast are unable to overcome an apparent lack either in preparation or understanding of their roles...
...horn, euphonium, trombone, and sousaphone. More appropriate to the group, and receiving a better performance, was a group of pieces by Johann Pezel, an early German composer of brass music for town bands. Although it was a pleasure to hear these seldom performed works, the group played with more gusto than polish...
...this reason to ask that the play be fully exploited is to ask a performance of unusual brilliance. It is in no sense to the discredit of The Eliot Drama Group that they have been unable to provide this. What they have done is combine talent and gusto in all aspects of a production, which--though it falls short of its potential lustre--is a credit to their labors, and most worthy of an audience...
...undefined. Evelyn Lear as his girl gives a hrikingly uneven performance at various times, she manages to resemble Martha Raye, June Allyson, and Joan Crawford. Kaye Ballard, the brilliant comedienne of The Golden Apple, suffers most from the sparseness of the material. She performs her three songs with gusto and precision, and might have lifted the show far above its present level, but her part is simply too small and inadequate...