Word: gusto
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Albert Borowitz, as Pygropolynices, the soldier whose amorous conquests pale before his last defeat, plays his role with a flair that is truly laugh-provoking. Swishing his sword about, gazing at himself in his mirror--which he continually carries about with him--he plays the title role with great gusto. He enjoys it himself, and certainly last night's audience did. John Rexine plays the old gentleman of Ephesus, Periplectomenus, naturally and well and George Mulhern gives a fine performance as a slave through whose agency the true lovers are reunited and the warrior disgraced. The real show-stopper...
...eminence at all, it's been on their shoulders. Although he looks forward to resuming academic life, he's found his ten years in civil service a great adventure, which he wouldn't have missed for anything! Always takes life at great pace and with gusto...
...this easy laughter didn't indicate a vacilating or pliant personality; it was not an invitation to conversation. It was, however, an indication of a very sunny disposition. She can read a lengthy stretch of medieval constitutional law (lapsing occasionally into Latin and Anglo-Saxon) with all the gusto and delight of Mary Margaret McBridge revealing a new recipe for banana cream...
...about to come off, a short effective thunderstorm bursts upon the scene. The heroes are always smiling, and the villains always scowl. Nary a musketeer is scratched, while red-coated fiends are run through by the score. This all sounds tiresome, but the players operate with such incredible gusto that the whole affair becomes a delightful burlesque...
...Harvard-Yale Concerts was interpreted in liberal fashion. After an Elegy and Bach Cantata, the Harvard Club launched into several choruses from "Patience" and the audience caught on: they were to enjoy themselves, not to appraise. Whereupon the two groups of singers pushed into their concert with a gusto that belied the forbidding impressions created by their formal stance and ceremonial dress...