Word: gusto
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Thomas Griffin played the title role with all the gusto of a "Beat" "Method" actor playing himself. There was no appreciable difference between the young Peer Gynt, the middle aged Peer Gynt, and the tired, old Peer Gynt. A part of the trouble was that he wore almost no makeup (how a twenty year old actor is supposed to look sixty without the help of makeup beats me), but a more significant trouble was that he had no sense of his physical presence on the stage. His voice never varied, his posture never changed; he was dwarfed...
Inflicted with Gusto. When he returned to music in 1923, it was to conduct the London Symphony and eventually to organize what was to become one of the world's great orchestras-the London Philharmonic. After that, his international reputation grew rapidly. Sir Thomas earned his title for his services to the government as an unofficial good-will ambassador (he gave concert-dinners for important Italian politicians, was credited with helping keep Italy on the side of the Allies in World War I). His manner of spreading good will, however, was sometimes open to question. In Australia, he kept...
...something that must be inflicted on the public." Nobody in his time inflicted music with greater gusto than England's aggressively peaceful man of music. Summing up his career in a mood of rare humility, he remarked: "I will not be called the greatest musician ever." But, added Sir Thomas, "I am better than any damn foreigner...
Skyline, by Gene Fowler. The 1920s again, with gusto...
Skyline, by Gene Fowler. The 1920s again, with gusto...