Word: gusto
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...years later the Sixth Symphony brought him further official plaudits. Outside Russia, music lovers were more critical. Shostakovich's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies combined spontaneous gusto, originality and nobility, with a curious taste for trite themes and musical horseplay, as if the composer were constantly fighting down an impulse to throw musical custard pies...
...citizens last week beheld a preview of what the peace table may be like. The actors were scholars and pundits; but their show had plenty of unacademic gusto. It raised a question considerably more immediate than the peace itself: were the American people well enough educated to know a just peace when they...
Outstanding attraction of part of the concert was the young son of G. Wallace Woodworth '24, director of the Glee Club, who during the playing of the band, mounted on the pedestal of one of the pillars of Wideney and led the entire ensemble with great gusto great gusto and no little skill...
...later in the week when Andy Kirk came to town, but there were some others whom I'd like to mention here who played more than one fine chorus that night. The ones I have in mind particularly are George Springer, whose trumpet led the rideout finals with much gusto, and who played some nice obligato during Rushing's blues numbers; Stu Grover, easily the best of the three drummers; and Ed Hunt on guitar and Bud Wentworth on trombone, both of whom suffered from the lack of an amplifier. It might be well to observe that most...
...sentiment of France's Ecole navale has long tended to be antidemocratic, and that sentiment was underscored in blood two years ago when the British attacked the French Fleet at Oran. But if most Vichy naval officers would probably fight Britain with gusto, French seamen are generally pro-British...