Word: zest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rejected Snowdon tossed a glass of white wine on Cazalet; for good measure, Snowdon later showered him again, this time with red wine. Afterward, Snowdon maintained silence about the incident as did Cazalet. Said Cazalet's son: "My father did not talk about it with any real zest or enthusiasm." ··· Princess Grace of Monaco flew into Chicago to address La Leche League, an aptly named organization devoted to the breast feeding of children...
Richler carries out the investigation with unflagging scatological zest and a deadly, unsparing eye. At the London film colony's weekly softball game, the players' first wives come to jeer, and the scores and strikeouts have more to do with careers and sex than with the game. On Montreal's St. Urbain Street, while sitting in mourning for Jake's father, friends and relatives pass around vulgarities and insults along with the cake. Canadian intellectuals are "reared to believe in the cultural thinness of their own blood. Anemia is their heritage." In gum-gray England...
...inferiors. Goldsmith notes the disparity between man commanding his pleasures and man attempting to please, and the divergence, in the case of sex, between seeing a woman as a wench and contemplating her for a wife. The entire cast, especially Jane Connell as Mrs. Hardcastle, vivifies these differences with zest, style and high good humor. With revivals like this, who needs new plays? T.E. Kalem
Bisexual Hairdo. Despite Stravinsky's fragile, birdlike appearance (in his prime, 5 ft. 3 in., 120 lbs.), he had indomitable physical zest. Repeated onslaughts of lung congestion, blood clotting and surgery reduced his body to "a ruin," according to his doctor. Yet until the end, which was attributed to arteriosclerotic heart disease, every one of his maladies seemed somewhat curable, save for his hypochondria. The remarkable features that had been caricatured by such friends as Cocteau and Picasso -bull-fiddle nose, guitar-like ears, pince-nez, natty mustache-remained mobile and alert. Stravinsky carried on with the conversational crowds...
...junior, a Catholic himself. As a group, the students are well above average in ability and politically quite conservative; they tend to shun radical activism. But each weekend some 20 residents take turns doing volunteer tutoring at an Opus Dei study center for younger students. Mostly, the residents' zest for service is inner-directed, toward caring for sick Schuylerites or helping dorm mates who have dropped behind in class...