Word: zest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joan (Ann Reinking) comes on like a female Vince Lombardi who feels she can psych Charley into a zest for winning. She sings pep talks at him like To Make the Boy a Man and I Am Going to Love (the Man You're Going to Be). But somehow he never seems to become quite the man that she is. She dominates the action, partly because playgoers cannot really forget Shaw's Saint Joan, though nothing, unfortunately, has been borrowed from G.B.S...
Cautious Moves. It is this zest for tackling problems that appealed to Ford, who also needed Rockefeller's experience with urban problems and identification with the moderate-to-liberal wing of the Republican Party. Ford is modest enough to know that he needs help. "I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am," he once said. The two met last Saturday to discuss Rockefeller's role in the Administration. Ford plans to put Rockefeller in general charge of the Domestic Council. Rocky fans think that eventually he will become the Kissinger...
Coach George Ford said yesterday, "We had to get some offensive punch. So we moved Lyman because he has a real zest for scoring...
Taking some of the zest out of the maneuvering is the generally admitted fact that the Conservatives have no one clearly suited to be Prime Minister. Their electoral base, moreover, has markedly diminished over the past decade. In Scotland, for example, they are not even the second party, taking third place behind the Laborites and the Scottish Nationalists (see following story...
...zest for reform did not last very long. By a vote of 203 to 165, the House rejected a far-reaching committee-realignment bill proposed by Missouri Democrat Richard Boiling (TIME...