Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hearty and Hellish! (the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem; Columbia). The Irish revolutionaries who now campaign on the nightclub circuit bring their characteristic gusto to the folk favorites of the pubs-love songs, drinking songs, and a few broad digs at Mother England...
...remains one of the truly freewheeling minds of the times, a genuine enfant terrible of letters who frequently is the first to point out that the emperor has no clothes, a totally committed opinionator who scorns to protect his rear and is somehow disarming because of his very gusto...
...Cussing Gusto. NBC, turning cartwheels as if it had just signed Christopher Marlowe, announced last week that Odets has agreed to participate in a TV series with Star Richard Boone of Have Gun Will Travel that will be quite similar to the old summer stock company on NBC's Robert Montgomery Presents: a different play each week, acted by a regular repertory company but with guest stars. Odets will supervise all the scripts and write at least four of the first 13 shows...
...coffee table, which is often covered with bits of four half-finished plays and the nearly complete libretto of a musical version of Golden Boy, which will star Sammy Davis Jr. on Broadway next season. With almost no prompting, the playwright is ready to sound off with four-letter gusto about almost anything...
Odets' polemic, a series of personal, middle-class tragedies and individual dislocations, evokes the darkness and anger of 1935. Rosaldo, who understood the stock figures he had to work with, decided to type-cast his actors and let them exaggerate their characters. The result is some fine gusto on the stage. Bill Cloherty played Fatt, the union boss, with all the techniques of a two-bit demagogue. Ivan Light came hurtling out of the audience (Lefty is a simulated union meeting) with an inspired outburst against company spies. But of the characters who had to think, to weigh the decisions...