Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the Eli football heroes have lost their collegiate gusto. "This is not a rahrah bunch of boys," proclaims Yale coach Carmen Cozza and a silent, sterile locker room bears testimony to his observation. Boola-Boola is Bush league--Yale has gone professional...
...however, thinking about the subject of the play, which is a simplistic attack on American blood lust. Ranchman, played with great simian gusto by William Devane, is an accused rapist in police custody. A howling mob, which seems largely composed of teenyboppers, demonstrates throughout-half for him and half against him. A ratty prosecuting attorney introduces highly clinical and irrelevant evidence against him; the alleged rape victims-two women, a young girl and a boy-seem to have enjoyed every minute of the experience...
...posters, balloons and signs give a carnival gaiety to the street scenes; many billboards have been papered over to proclaim an Olympic theme: "Everything is possible in peace." Even the shantytowns look good. Inhabitants were given buckets of free paint, and they responded with a typically Mexican gusto. Some shacks wear bright stripes, others have blazing coats of lavender, green, or orange...
...really, they were too futile to be scary. As most people left the Common, they gathered in mini-rallies all over the grass. The TV men turned their klieg lights on them and they cavorted with gusto for the cameras, led in chants by their cheer-leaders...
...stooge councilors, whose function is to carry on "disputations" in order to arrive at the correct political interpretation of whatever matter is at hand. Sometimes the talk climbs into the foothills of poetry, as in the rich rodomontades of the grey-bearded tribal chief, played with ferocious gusto by Douglas Turner, the company's artistic director. But for the most part, Soyinka's language is clotted and obscure, his action rambling and repetitive...