Word: zest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oldsters who fought the Independents' first battles still slay long-dead dragons with all their old zest. As a prelude to this year's Silver Jubilee, a group of oldtimers, with some 300 friends and admirers, crowded the Independents' old hangout: Petitpas, a venerable Bohemian French restaurant on Manhattan's lower West Side. Their guest of honor was a small, garrulous, bespectacled oldster who had risen from a sickbed to be there. For 24 of its 25 years he had been the Society's president. His name was a famous one in U.S. art: John...
...Mind, for anything perception can compass, goes in our spatial world more ghostly than a ghost. . . . What then does it amount to? All that counts in life. Desire, zest, truth, love, knowledge, 'values' and seeking metaphor to eke out expression, hell's depth and heaven's utmost height...
However, this quest for music-off-the-beaten-track lends a certain amount of zest to concert-going. Mitropoulous himself would not pretend that the Mahler First is anything but a very bad symphony. Nobody, even the most ardent Mahlerite, imagines that there is anything important or cosmic about the first movement, for example, which goes on for about fifteen-minutes with little woodland chirpings and bleatings of the clarinet, and launches into a phony folk-lore theme which, after muddling around soupily in the horns through another ten minutes, finally expires in sheer exhaustion. Nobody, I say, could honestly...
...ordered to put a birdcage over his head, sing Listen to the Mocking Bird. More terrifying was the experience of a gentleman who had to lie on a bed sheet in the middle of the studio stage and pretend to be a male seal wooing his mate. To add zest to his performance, a real seal was quietly placed beside him which barked happily down his neck. For thinking up such consequences, listeners are paid...
...biggest hope for the playwright is Harvard's new zest for radio. The Workshop expects to produce a few plays a month. And they will have a guaranteed outlet to the college via the Crimson Network. No author will have a better chance to have his opus praised or picked to bits than at the next morning's breakfast table. With plenty of "free air" available, Harvard should be swarming with Maxwell Andersons if the law of supply and demand holds good...