Word: gusto
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...someone say Steve Martins wasn't playing with the usual gusto this year? Ah, bite your tongue...
...wrong to place fully the blame on the masters, as one house resident has recently done with excessive gusto. Discussion is a two-way street: the house committee is not flawless either, and should take more initiative in establishing a constant channel of information between the students and the house masters...
...through the complicated financial transactions the case hinged upon. "The net effect on many jurors was panic at their inability to follow the money," writes Adler, who later interviewed the jurors. Unable to sift the complex evidence, they fell back on sheer sympathy for Imelda, who courted it with gusto. Dressed in black, clutching her rosaries, she could be seen at the defense table wiping back tears. Acquitted, Imelda threw a thank-you party for the jurors with roast pig and a belly dancer. She sang Feelings...
Other items in the report run along the same lines as many of our past editorials. With particular gusto, we applaud the commission's suggestion that the ever-nebulous role of the Undergraduate Council be examined by a committee of students and faculty...
Many of those who treat ADHD see the recognition of the problem as a humane breakthrough: finally we will stop blaming kids for behavior they cannot control. But some are worried that the disorder is being embraced with too much gusto. "A lot of people are jumping on the bandwagon," complains psychologist Mark Stein, director of a special ADHD clinic at the University of Chicago. "Parents are putting pressure on health professionals to make the diagnosis." The allure of ADHD is that it is "a label of forgiveness," says Robert Reid, an assistant professor in the department of special education...