Word: gusto
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...only ones to rejoice that Dr. Kilpatrick is given a fresh mount from which to tilt at his foes. With John Dewey and George Counts he is one of the "three bad boys" of Morningside Heights, who love always to blow up old dogmas of education. Sailing with great gusto into the teaching based on folkways and tradition, he preaches a schooling tied to the life of today, teaching the latest social problems in the everchanging, indeterminate manner of modern culture itself. The great object of his scorn is the smugness with which schools tend to sit back and survey...
Playing his part with enormous gusto against handsome Dutch sets, Actor Laughton dominates Rembrandt, gives one of his finest performances at a dignified pace which well befits the life of his noble, if somewhat ribald, model. Best shot: Sonorous Painter Rembrandt rolling off a long, sensuous soliloquy defining Woman, while the mouths of stolid Dutchmen flap open and servant girls go glassy-eyed with dreams...
...performance of Symphonic Vaseline by Tristan Tzara to be played by an orchestra of 20. Instead, young conservatives in the pit turned dadaists themselves, hurled tomatoes and hunks of raw meat (procured from a nearby butcher shop) at the stage while the dadaists volleyed back the missiles with delighted gusto. The owner of the building, Mme Gaveau, shouted furious protests from...
...case with Celine's book and Miller's Tropic of Cancer, the obscenity of Lawrence's report has no Rabelaisian gusto to make it bearable or give it meaning: it is monotonous, mechanical, uninspired and gross, a neurotic explosion of disgust rather than an uninhibited outbreak of masculine high spirits...
Meanwhile U. S. correspondents arriving in Ipswich were fascinated alike by the innocence of the local citizenry and the naughty talk of lawyers down from London. The latter's conversations were flavored with much the tone of a poem some of them read with gusto to one another from the current London New Statesman and Nation. Excerpts...