Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...courses. Tots find the suburban facilities wonderful but a bit scary. One third-grade boy looked into the big cafeteria in West Hartford's King Philip School and refused to walk in. "I'm not hungry," he protested. Coaxed inside by a white classmate, he ate with gusto; he had only hesitated because he had never seen a cafeteria before...
Experience has taught him that although success is desirable, failure need not be fatal if one possesses enough human resilience. Of the advertising game he says, "If you play it grimly, you will die of ulcers. If you play it with lighthearted gusto, you will survive your failures without losing sleep. Play to win, but enjoy the fun." Olgivy seems always to have enjoyed the fun--but then, he's always been successful...
...began the first lap of her Mozart marathon. In the opening Concerto No. 4, composed when Mozart was eleven, she unfolded the beguilingly simple melodies with a rippling grace and ease; in No. 9 she engaged the Mozart Chamber Orchestra in a lighthearted dialogue that rang with all the gusto of a back-porch gossip fest. And her reading of the passionate No. 20, the most popular of Mozart's piano works, was clean refinement and intense drama. It was impeccable Mozart throughout, original without being eccentric, introspective without being pedantic. At concert's end, the sellout crowd...
...luck for Moscow, Leningrad and Alma-Ata. What swingers there will miss-and those in the provinces will hear-is a propulsive, inventive brand of piano that has been the wonder of the jazz world for nearly 40 years. In Russia, as everywhere, Hines has been playing with a gusto born of assurance. His left hand minds the shop while his right frolics on a freewheeling holiday. Eyes squinched in concentration, his yard-wide smile flashing like neon, he launches into daring improvisational flights that, however farflung, somehow always resolve themselves into patterns as precise and neatly interlocked...
MAME is more lavish entertainment than outstanding musical, but it looks good and has the brash assurance typical of Broadway when it does something well because it is familiar. Angela Lansbury plays kooky Auntie with gusto...