Word: gusto
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Make no mistake, however: this is the classic Shakespearean text, delivered with Elizabethan gusto. As You Like It, remarkable even among Shakespeare's comedies for its sheer number of characters, is staged by such intelligent and versatile actors that even the minor roles shine. Nora Zimmett '00 gives a powerful and richly textured performance as Rosalind, the heroine around whom the rest of the play revolves. It's a tremendous responsibility which she handles with grace, strength and wit. Ryan McKittrick, as her romantic counterpart Orlando, gives his character all the charming hot-headedness and lovelorn sincerity required...
...band performed with gusto throughout the long show, and it seemed especially to enjoy the medley at the end which combined popular melodies from the past 50 years...
...walked on the square, some taking pictures of each other. Nearer the Monument to the People's Heroes, a crew of workers were dismantling a wooden structure used as decorations during the Chinese lunar new year festivities. At one corner, near Mao's Mausoleum, six teenagers played soccer with gusto. A few blocks away from the square, a group of residents walked up to the gate of Deng Xiaoping's city residence to offer a paper-wreath. Guards at the gate accepted the wreath and nervously told the visitors to go home." U.S. anaylsts believe that Deng's death...
Corinne Funk's Nov. 19 column "How to Get Good Grades," deserves an "A." Getting excited about a course or paper; taking charge and reading, writing or creating with synthesis and gusto; feeling empowered to go beyond the bounds of the assignment to integrate and think--this is what learning is about. How ironic that it is often when one becomes less concerned about grades and more concerned about learning that better grades ensue. --Robert Read, Ed.D., Psychologist, Bureau of Study Counsel
...that this novel, her third, is simply a misstep. Perhaps she has gone to the well once too often: A Regular Guy has the same theme as much of her earlier work--a child searching for a lost father--and it lacks the energy and rude gusto of Anywhere but Here. As for Owens, he loses his company, but in the end he is doing just fine on a diet of nuts, fruits and cauliflower, a gentler superman...