Word: gusto
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...Mathematician. The Liebers, who teach mathematics at New York's Long Island University, have a fine time explaining elementary things about Boolian algebra, non-Euclidean geometry and the fourth dimension. The reader is likely to share their gusto, even if he can not agree that "science and mathematics . . . can be a veritable defense against ALL evil...
...idol. It outlaws smut and disdains fast gags, relying on reality lightened by absurdity, on comedy deepened by pathos. But, unlike Chaplin, Field enhances his pantomime with a full set of voices and intonations and the widest mastery of English accents on the English stage. Field has gusto as well. "At last," wrote the Sunday Times's magisterial James Agate, "the stage has an actor who knows how to exuberate...
Those who have not had the luck or money to get into Manhattan's Copacabana (or other Durante nightspots in the past) have missed the full effect of Jimmy's comedy, which comes only from watching him work in a small joint where his extraordinary gusto can not only bounce forth but also reach him on the rebound from a close and delighted audience. Then Jimmy reaches a comic violence that makes his audience feel like spectators at a small Balkan...
...Giovannis' impromptu adventures, but the author's inexhaustible narrative gusto describing them, make this novel standard Dumas...
...Associate Justice, last week wiped off the dust that had gathered on his club since he left the Department of Justice, and whammed it down on the collective pate of organized labor. The blow, wrapped in the current issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, was delivered with the same kind of gusto with which he had smashed so savagely at various A.F. of L. unions (building trades, teamsters, musicians) as harmful monopolies. His kick upstairs to the bench brought no heartier sighs of relief from any area than from labor...