Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gutter. Cancer is a picaresque-didactic novel whose hero is a monster of eloquence, a high-spirited low character-Henry Miller. At one level it is a long locker-room anecdote told with unquenchable gusto by a born raconteur, anxious that all should share the grandeurs and miseries of being down and out in Europe, among the Lost Generation...
...enjoy his performance. Spyro Harbouris plays Friar Lawrence as a deadpan Italian cobbler, and for one delightful moment Philip Stone totters on stage and then stumbles off as Friar John. Beatrice Paipert is not nearly disgusting enough as the nurse, but at least she laughs and weeps with admirable gusto...
Dick was right. At 24 he had gone as far as the New York Evening Sun. Second day on the job, accosted by a con man in City Hall Park, he tackled the fellow, hollered for the cops, and wrote the story up with a gusto that made him from that moment the Sun's star reporter. Within a year he had a national reputation as the author of some witty and wildly popular short stories. At 25 he took over as managing editor of Harper's Weekly, at that time probably the nation's most prestigious...
Thomas Griffin played the title role with all the gusto of a "Beat" "Method" actor playing himself. There was no appreciable difference between the young Peer Gynt, the middle aged Peer Gynt, and the tired, old Peer Gynt. A part of the trouble was that he wore almost no makeup (how a twenty year old actor is supposed to look sixty without the help of makeup beats me), but a more significant trouble was that he had no sense of his physical presence on the stage. His voice never varied, his posture never changed; he was dwarfed...
...something that must be inflicted on the public." Nobody in his time inflicted music with greater gusto than England's aggressively peaceful man of music. Summing up his career in a mood of rare humility, he remarked: "I will not be called the greatest musician ever." But, added Sir Thomas, "I am better than any damn foreigner...