Word: zest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coffee-colored coffee vendor," he manages to marry the boss's daughter (Marian Mercer), and with the quickest of strides reaches the top as a national and international business tycoon. Along the way he accumulates a bevy of English, Russian and German mistresses, all played with great comic zest by the selfsame Mercer. There is less sin than smirk in these accent-prone escapades...
...Jean King at her fearless peak. With adequate (if occasionally unsteady) groundstrokes, her only on-court enemy was herself: she rattled easily, making unforced errors, while her concentration wandered. Still she climbed into the top ten on the strength of undisciplined talent, and at age 18 found that her zest for the life of the world class star she was becoming had outrun the indulgence of Czech authorities...
...want to be a G-man-bang! -bang!-bang!") has an impact of disenchantment now that could not have been dreamed of in 1937. Then, a G-man was a hero, the sanctification of J. Edgar Hoover had just begun. Daniel Fortus delivers the song with wicked zest, and the audience responds in kind...
...boomed. "It is the enterprising entrepreneur, the risk taker, the competitive antagonist, the builder of plants and factories, the creator of new enterprises and the expander of old ones, the people who make better mousetraps, cheaper and faster. If our economy is not strong, we will have neither the zest nor the vitality for other adventures, however useful and attractive they...
...book is principally an enthralling account of the first postwar escapes and strikes in the camps that exploded into full-scale mutinies after Stalin's death. That heroic era coincided with Solzhenitsyn's own eight-year term, and its heady air still exhilarates him. The pride and zest with which he describes the convicts' resistance contrast sharply with the fury he expended on their earlier docility. In Gulag II he had thundered: "The strongest chains binding the prisoners were their own universal submission and total surrender to their situation as slaves." But writing from Vermont, where...