Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dinner. Imagine our surprise when a shopper advised us to try the whale steak. Try it we did that evening and found it to be perfectly tender and delicious. We could not tell it from a juicy sirloin. Our six-year-old ate it with gusto...
...part of God, demands it: "I act well with God. I give him good food and good women. I want to go to heaven." Paco himself fluctuates between elation and despair in this diverse amalgam of nihilism and jollity, which is sometimes reminiscent of Beckett but spiced with Hispanic gusto...
...world's longest mustache? Who was the world's most productive mother? No standard reference book troubles with such trivia, but an offbeat guide called The Guinness Book of Records answers such questions with gusto. And because it does, Guinness has become a useful handbook for any newspaperman who wants to spice a story with a few superlatives. Last week the second U.S. edition was rolling off the presses with the latest answers to unlikely questions: the world's mustache champ, says the new Guinness, is Masudiya Din. a Bombay Brahman who sports...
...Parsons O'Donnell. 65, longtime (1933-61) Washington bureau chief for the New York Daily News whose hard-hitting column, "Capitol Stuff," won him fame as one of his generation's top political reporters; of chronic congestive heart failure; in Washington. An engaging Boston Irishman with limitless gusto for the mechanics of politics. O'Donnell larded his stories with strongly conservative and isolationist opinions that landed him in endless clamorous hassles (most notable: F.D.R.'s angry World War II press conference "awarding" him the Iron Cross) but never dimmed his conviction that politics was essentially...
Cream in Stone. Throughout his 14-year (1940-54) "professional honeymoon" as New York Herald Tribune music critic, Thomson campaigned for the performance of modern works and unfamiliar ancient ones, carped at the heavy concert ration of German, Italian and Slavic music, and set about with gusto to deflate what he thought were undeserved reputations. Toscanini he criticized as a practitioner of the "Wow Technique," by which he meant "the theatrical technique of whipping up something in a way to provoke applause automatically." Strauss's Salome, he wrote, was "like modernistic sculpture made of cheap wood, glass, rocks, cinders...