Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kubitschek does take office as President, he will bring to his tasks a sound record as an energetic governor who built roads and public works, got loans, and drew business capital to his state. When campaigning, he sings and sambas with gusto, orates with spellbinding fervor; but he gets a lot of work done...
Slightly Premature. Italian theologians have not yet entered into space theology with the same gusto as the Germans. Jesuit Father Antonio Messineo contributing editor of the fortnightly Civilta Cattolica, favors a wait-and-see attitude. "The question of an eventual missionary activity among the inhabitants of other planets," he said, "hinges on two fundamental questions: 1) is there spiritual and physical human life on planets, and 2) are the inhabitants still in the state of original grace, or have they fallen into...
KHRUSHCHEV: "A brute," says a senior Western ambassador. Khrushchev meddles in all fields but, except for the mechanics of powergrabbing, is really knowledgeable in none. A headlong, rough-house character with more drive and gusto than the others, he also has a peasant's cunning. He is gradually packing the Politburo with men of his own choosing, and seems not to have suffered for making a drunken spectacle of himself in Belgrade...
Ever since Gigli replaced Caruso as the Metropolitan Opera's star tenor in 1920, audiences have applauded him less for artfulness than for artlessness. He sang and acted with his peasant's gusto-"with the whole force of his body," one critic wrote, "as naturally as a gamecock fights." Vocal style usually went out the window when he saw a chance to prolong a honeyed mezza voce, a thundering high B-flat, a sob, a gulp or a tearful portamento...
...ending (adapted from Playwright James M. Barrie's sequel, Peter and Wendy). Director-Choreographer Jerome Robbins shaved away sentimentality in favor of movement and daughter; Cyril Ritchard turned Captain Hook ( "the swiniest swine of them all") into a Pirate of Penzance with a fine mixture of cringe and gusto. Of the two sponsors (total payout: $450,000), Ford made palatable its light-touch commercials; RCA tried to fob off Vaughn Monroe in a fantasy of its own and suffered by contrast. After a look at the size of the audience (an estimated 65 million) NBC announced that it will...