Word: gusto
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...City law firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn. Young Roosevelt soon began telling fellow law clerks that he planned to follow in Cousin Theodore's footsteps. The first step was a seemingly hopeless contest for the state senate. But F.D.R. won as a progressive Democrat -thanks largely to the gusto of his campaign-and immediately plunged into a dangerous scrap with Boss Murphy's Tammany Hall over the selection of a U.S. Senator. Some of the book's best passages relate intricate New York politicking, with reformers pitted-as they still are today-against regulars. As a freshman...
Despite a querulous vocal pitch, Jessica Tandy endows these tiny marine skeletons of drama with shimmering glints of life, and Hume Cronyn brings a gusto to his roles that adds flesh to their bones. But their admirable efforts are largely wasted. Life is a rum show, Beckett keeps on telling us. So, alas, are his plays...
...surprise, and after a while the listener understands that there is more than physical equipment and technique at work here. Garrett somehow has the illusion that in pleading the environment case, she is delivering word that is not only vital but fresh. Carol Kristy, another pixie with astonishing gusto, shares this illusion, which provides the revue with its life. She sings about the lost wonder of Xanadu, the time when man could think of no limit on his life but death, as if she had just flown in from there in time for the curtain...
This fall Bates brings to Broadway his most extraordinary anti-hero to date and his first full-fledged comic role. In Simon Gray's Butley, a long-run hit in London, he plays a bisexual college English professor who presides, with glee and gusto, over the breakdown of his life. "This is a full picture of someone falling apart and really rather enjoying it," Bates says. "Butley has a terrific sense of life and the hypocrisies of it. He can't commit himself. When his wife asks him if he wants her back, he replies: 'Frequently...
...author drew on the years when she and her husband were employed in a bank that collapsed. She observed the motley incarnations of greed who inhabited the place, and obviously developed a grudging fascination with the charms of avarice. But she has set it all in motion with more gusto than discrimination...