Word: zest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Payne, to his credit, does something more than that. A relentless biographer (Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Gandhi), he tackled his present subject without benefit of any fresh interviewing, but with the kind of wide-eyed zest that produces a sort of Boy's Life of Genghis Khan. There goes the youthful, effervescent Adolf trotting off to school at the local Benedictine Abbey at Lambach and passing by an old abbot's pet insignia, the swastika.* Here he comes, voraciously reading the latest sauerkraut western by Bavarian Author Karl May, whose genocidal hero Old Shatterhand was busy exterminating the insidious...
...great natural performer, something on the scale of Niagara Falls." That assessment of Tenor Lauritz Melchior by Metropolitan Opera Assistant Manager Francis Robinson is hardly hyperbole. When he died last week two days before his 83rd birthday, Melchior's gargantuan talents and zest for life were firmly established in opera's hagiography...
...Blue Gown, You Made Me Love You and the title song have survived 1919 with melodic vitality. Thanks be to Peter Gennaro's dance numbers for some lively eye openers at points in the story where one might be strongly tempted to doze off. They are executed with zest and finesse, and one number, The Riviera Rage, also possesses a saucy elegance...
...pledge that "our children can be the first generation in this century to escape the scourge of war." His remarks on the domestic future were couched in vague terms about the need for Americans to achieve "more kindness in our relations with each other" and "to find a new zest in the pursuit of excellence." But then Nixon all along had deliberately failed to outline programs and obviously was not going to take the chance of getting specific in the final phases of a winning campaign. In his speech, his only domestic promise was "I will...
That kind of zest allows Mother Earth to orbit well above its material; the audience is able to forget that the writing was done with an instrument rather more blunt than that skywriter's chisel. ∎Laurence I.Barrett