Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Business. When U. Mass. Provost (now Chancellor) Oswald Tippo approached him about heading the ed school, Allen boldly "asked for everything." To his shock, he got virtual carte blanche−and has used it with characteristic gusto. Draping his portly form in custom-tailored African shirts and guzzling low-calorie colas, Dean Allen first set out to whip up a graduate school. Foundations and the Federal Government agreed with his goal, came up with nearly $4,000,000. Allen raised faculty salaries to as much as $33,000 a year, signed on historians and economists as well as education professors...
There is little doubt that Rogers Morton today looks a great deal better than Wally Hickel did at a comparable time in his career. Nobody expects Morton to match Hickel's gusto, drive and independence. But many predict that he will be more politically effective. According to one of his friends, "Rog feels the pressure of Hickel's record. He will not want it said that when Hickel stood up, Morton caved in to special interests...
...efforts were prudent, because Gore, 62, and a veteran of 32 years of political strife, counterattacked with more gusto than Brock, 39, seemed able to muster. Old Albert stumped hard, reminded Tennesseans of the bread-and-butter benefits he had fought for, and held his ground with courage, if not cunning. Unlike Democrats elsewhere, he refused to scramble for safe rhetoric when assailed on law-and-order...
...anthology does not hide Belloc's often absurd fixations. But it does reveal a writer of rare genius and rarer virtues, who had a Romanic love of order, ceremony and pietas, a raging contempt for humbug, snobbism and cant, an adult gusto and a childlike faith, an unerring eye for the telling detail of a life or a landscape, and a blunt, stately, crisp and virile style...
Propelled Forward. The girl, Sinaida (Dominique Sanda), is an impoverished princess with a fatal blessing; unrelieved sensuality. She attracts not only the youth Alexander (John Moulder Brown) but a whole galaxy of worshipers, including Alexander's repressed father (Maximilian Schell) and Poet-Pretender Maidanov, played with self-mocking gusto by Playwright John Osborne...