Word: spunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...audience and the characters. One believes in neither their shenanigans nor their sufferings. The actors do not close the gap. Ingrid Bergman is beguilingly lovely at 52, but she poses, more often than she performs, for a camera that is not there. Colleen Dewhurst puts consistent bristle, greed and spunk into Sara, bul cajolery does not seem to be her brand of brogue. Since quite a bit of O'Neill's dialogue is melodramatic, maudlin or mushy, Arthur Hill does little more than tread gingerly on his lines, as if they were booby-trapped...
...When you're through changing, you're through," Bruce Barton once said. There was one thing about Barton himself that never changed - his faith in spunk, selfhelp, salesmanship, sloganeering, America. That faith, given wide circulation through his uplift books, his catchy advertising copy, and his cheer fully uncomplicated politics, made Barton, son of a circuit-riding Tennessee preacher, one of the great evangelists of his day. From World War I until last week, when he died in Manhattan at 80, he remained an unspoiled and influential American optimist...
...woman since Geneviève de Galard-Terraube, the Angel of Dienbienphu, has won such tributes for courage. Author Truman Capote hailed her for "one thing: g-u-t-s," a Chicago newspaper remarked on her "spunk," and Co-Actor John Erickson said she "was like a bull in the ring." Inspiration for all the euphemism was Lee Bouvier, otherwise Princess Lee Radziwill, 34, younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy, making her professional acting debut at Chicago's Ivanhoe Theater in a four-week run of The Philadelphia Story. Alackaday. Neither g-u-t-s nor the services of Seamster...
...debut in a series imposingly titled "Great Performers at Philharmonic Hall." If Buswell is not quite ready for that adjective, his musicianship shows that he may soon be within reach of it. He is a devotee of the dip-and-sway school of playing, but he has temperament and spunk, a luminous tone and a controlled technique. Out of a contrasting assortment of half a dozen pieces, he delivered a fine, full-blooded performance of Bach's Sonata No. 4, blazed easily through the trickiest passages of Prokofiev's Sonata in D Major, and captured the dark warmth...
...James Hall to Harvard Square. There was a tall thin student with brown hair and a shorter thinner student with black hair and fiery eyes. And there was somebody else, too. These three Harvard students were discussing social science, the upper, middle and lower classes, and the equation of spunk with virtue...