Word: zest
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Harold Brown enjoys a reputation for bringing a cool, scientific detachment to his job as Secretary of Defense. All the more surprising, then, that he has plunged into partisan politics this election year with the zest and hyperbole usually expected of more conventional politicians. In fact, Brown himself has become something of an issue. Indignant Republicans charge that he has painted far too rosy a picture of the state of U.S. defenses. Undeterred, Brown journeyed last week to politically important Texas (26 electoral votes) on an ostensibly nonpolitical mission to answer critics who claim that the U.S. military is woefully...
...Tory left has never been comfortable with Thatcher's zest for monetarism, meaning the strict regulation of a nation's money supply as the key to economic revival. It is beginning to press for more flexibility and compassion. Employment Secretary James Prior warned the conference against endorsing the harsh anti-union stance favored by some rightist Tories. "It makes no sense," he said, "to act as though we are taking part in the Charge of the Light Brigade...
...reporter, becoming Bonn bureau chief for United Press in 1954. Recruited into the diplomatic service, he was appointed chief government spokesman in 1972. As permanent representative to the U.N. since 1974, he has regularly demonstrated a Prussian passion for exactitude with an un-Teutonic irreverence and an irrepressible zest for diplomacy's social whirl. "A good man to carry this important honor for us," comments a West German foreign ministry official. "It's equally important that it won't go to his head...
Rarely-and rightly-have Americans been so critical of Congress, a circumstance that lends particular zest and importance to this year's contests. On these two pages, TIME this week begins regular coverage for the duration of the campaign of races for the Senate and House that are significant not only for their effect on the balance of power in the 97th Congress but also for their insight into local and state issues that color the rich mosaic of America...
That vitality is there, written across the canvas with enormous chromatic zest, in William Glackens' Breezy Day, Tugboats, New York Harbor, circa 1910. But in Glackens' cheerfully slathered impasto, the sky streaked with cat's paws of pink and the puffs of whistle steam stitched across the fat, oily pelt of the sea, an other kind of sensibility is present. It is very like the world of the French Fauve painters Derain and Vlaminck. The gap between Paris and New York has narrowed to less than a decade, and American modernism is about to begin in earnest...