Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weathered sienna brown and warm pastel shades. The square is large enough to hold the town's whole population in its sloping, shell-shaped form, unified with simple, geometric lines radiating out from the Palazzo Pubblico. It is the site of mid-20th century celebrations that match in gusto those which so delighted the Renaissance storyteller Boccaccio...
Right from the start Althea grimly set her lips and set out to play a man's game. Lean and agile (5 ft. 10¾ in., 138 lbs.), she sprinted about the court on tireless legs, belted her serves with unladylike gusto. For one giddy moment, all England hoped that a strapping (5 ft. 11 in., 155 lbs.) English schoolgirl of 16 named Christine Truman could stop Althea in the semifinals. Christine seemed to some to be the best British prospect in 20 years, but Althea was not impressed. "I'll gobble her up," she said coolly...
Since he began pursuing what some intellectuals call "The Great Unwashed American Businessman," Paepcke has discovered that though most executives are worried about their lack of contact with art, letters and ideas, they will plunge into such matters with the same gusto they show in business, if they get the chance to do so without embarrassment. This summer Paepcke expects to play host to USIA Boss Arthur Larson, Boston & Maine President Patrick McGinnis, CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid, U.A.W. Vice President Leonard Woodcock, and a host of presidents and heirs apparent from some of the nation's largest companies...
...chorus phrases (in his first aria, the prefect sings over and over again: "Clean shirts, clean nightcaps, Latin mottoes over the beds"). Egk also allows the singers to sing their essential recitatives against the support merely of a sustained bass. The result is an opera that moves with beery gusto and at a breathless, never confused pace...
...contemporary of Raphael's, had a Renaissance man's gusto and love of high living. His checkered career, which began with a scandal over his civil-service exam (he came out first, then was disgraced when it was discovered that a friend had bribed the examiner), was spent between wild roistering and intense painting periods. His Gentleman and Attendants borrows T'ang Dynasty props, slims down the earlier plump models to suit Ming tastes, and comes off as a triumph in space and contrasts. But T'ang Yin could not resist slyly mocking the mood...