Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Greed is the theme of the play, greed so compelling as to raise it to an obsessive lust for money. In this reincarnation, the setting has become San Francisco in the 1890s. Volpone has become Foxwell J. Sly, played with shark's-tooth gusto by George C. Scott. Rich and childless. Sly feigns grave illness in order to arouse the hopes of avaricious, fawning and wealthy townsfolk who hope to become his heir...
...Concert Band played these provincial folk tunes with singular enthusiasm and sensitivity, although the performance did not quite match that of the Persichetti symphony. The performers showed their versatility in the opening "Normandie," played with gusto, sprightly clashes of brass and a fine ensemble, and in "Bretagne," somber and haunting with a nice, accented contrast of low brass and shrill woodwinds...
...Gusto Game. Whatever they called it, the networks spent the evening in furious competition, playing with gusto the game they had vowed not to engage in this outing. After ABC and NBC guessed wrong in pronouncing Morris Udall the victor of last April's Wisconsin primary (Carter came from behind during the lobster shift), officials of all three networks said they would stress accuracy over speed on Election Night. NBC, for example, forbade staff members to tell its vote analysts about any competitors' returns, for fear of hastening NBC projections. Somewhere along the way, however, caution failed...
Graham did that too, but with more gusto. She said her volunteers--about 200 in number--tried to drop a piece of literature at each door in the district three or four different times...
...Carter folks are organizing with such gusto, in fact, you might think that Massachusetts is a state where the race is as close as the battle for the Ivy League championship instead of the only one the Democrats carried the last time around...