Word: gusto
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Many of the not-so-good tutorials in the sophomore year seem to occur at the outposts of the Harvard-Radcliffe camps. All-girl tutorials with a woman tutor, especially in a "masculine" field such as Government, often lack the gusto necessary to valuable discussion. On the other hand, many all-male group tutorials degenerate into beer and cheer sessions, where the tutors is "one of the boys" and becomes less responsible. There are some defenders of House privacy who argue that a breezy informality is a necessary prerequisite of learning, but the weight of evidence would indicate that...
...material should provide an incentive to deeper scholarship. But to the unskilled or uncurious student, lectures form a mere skeleton of ideas on which the meat of reading is to be hung. Unfortunately, the American lecture system, rests on a disciple-like trust of the professor and lacks the gusto of an alert and slightly hostile listening body...
Excavated Shops. To set the scene for his four-week festival, Menotti refurbished the town with such gusto that the astounded inhabitants started calling him Il Matto (The Madman). He tore out neon street lighting and substituted antique carriage lanterns, got Cathedral Square temporarily deconsecrated so intermission-coffee tables could be placed outside the adjacent theater. At the same time, a group of townsmen dug out a row of medieval shops, now stocked with modern paintings and Italian bric-a-brac. Facelifting and the scheduled productions have cost roughly $250,000, and even with private and foundation support, Menotti...
...Abbey Lincoln. Both have a captivating, come-hither way with a song, and the sinuous good looks that make audiences pay attention from ringside clear back to the chromium bar stools. In Manhattan and Detroit last week, Sallie, 24, and Abbey, 27, were peddling Topic A with a gusto that few singers have displayed since Dorothy Dandridge and Eartha Kitt started giving night classes in it for the tavern trade...
...dinner chez Larkin. and stays and stays only to be subverted by food, drink, love and the Larkin clan's infectious lust for life, makes H. E. (for Herbert Ernest) Bates's novel one of the blithest robustious romps of the year. The book's gusto is all the more remarkable coming from welfare-sated England and from 53-year-old Author (The Sleepless Moon) Bates, a writer who in recent years has focused on the somber, the lovelorn and the violent...