Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SATORI IN PARIS, by Jack Kerouac. An account of a beat writer's ribald search for some noble French ancestors, told with gusto and amusing dropout grammar...
What really matters, of course, is the contents of that copy. To this, our readers seemed to respond with gusto. The "Is God Dead?" cover story drew a record-breaking 3,500 letters, and the vast majority answered the rhetorical question in a vigorous negative. We continued our broad coverage of the Vietnamese war, beginning with the Man of the Year cover story on General William Westmoreland. Also memorable, we feel, were our report on the South African situation, which featured Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on the cover shortly before his assassination; our tour of swinging London; and the introduction...
...just to look up this old name of mine, which is just about three thousand years old and was never changed in all that time, as who would change a name that simply means House (Ker), in the Field (Ouac)." Yet the bounce and burble of Kerouac's gusto and dropout grammar carry the reader along his wacky safari. Actually, Kerouac claims that it was less safari than satori (the Japanese zen term for sudden illumination), although it is not clear just what the satori conveyed...
...great tide of regicide and republicanism that began with the French Revolution reached a high mark with World War I. The last European ruler to play the king game with real gusto was high-living Edward VII. His funeral, on May 20, 1910, was a perfect set piece to illustrate the end of the royal era. Glittering and clanking behind his catafalque came one emperor, nine kings, five heirs apparent, 40 royal highnesses, three queens and four dowager queens. Afterward all of them went back to their thrones and palaces, courtiers and horse guards and watched their world come apart...
...phone book.) The Under Secretary's door was usually closed during Ball's tenure; it is now usually open. Ball was almost exclusively preoccupied with European unity and had a theologian's hostility toward Charles de Gaulle. Katzenbach is constitutionally open minded and has a rare gusto for new facts, theories, arguments...