Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...music by Frederick Lowe is good, very good, and Lerner's lyrics are also fine, although not so clever as those of Hammerstein. The songs, for the most part, are in the hearty, rough color of their setting, and an excellent male chorus sings them with appropriate gusto...
...maul each other on a screen isn't the same as sitting in the stands. All the pageantry was out of it--the girls in plaid dresses, the band uniforms, the colors, the requests for shots from the bottle. There was little cheering and such as there was lacked gusto. I've never gone along with those who consider football merely a spectator sport. Participating in all the insane hoopla, before, during, and after the game is easily as exhilarating as watching the actual contest. The telecasters did manage to get some of the noise across to the audience...
When the Saints Go Marching In (The Weavers; Decca). The Weavers handle a rousing New Orleans graveyard recessional with their usual guts and gusto...
Rumpled Beds. For his teacher's fashionable Chelsea haunts, young Sickert substituted a series of battered studio digs in north and central London. There he sketched and painted scenes of British low life with a gusto and an eye for beauty in squalor that rivaled Degas and Lautrec. Like Lautrec, he doted on the dramatic lighting and rowdy shenanigans of turn-of-the-century music halls. He also liked to paint outdoors...
...last men left alive who during the last century pursued the largest of God's creatures over the bounding main in an oversize peapod, and did him in with a spike on the end of a pole. His memoir of those derring days, told with salty gusto, is sure to be one of the last authentic additions to the thrilling literature of old-fashioned whaling...