Word: zestful
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...players, Van Johnson, as the other American, is a total miscast. Cyd Charisse chores through some tiresome choreography without much zest. And Gene Kelly, an amiable and efficient commercial hoofer, makes another unfortunate attempt to be the poor man's Nijinsky...
...would she? What seems to be modesty and courage in the present U.S. mood (or lack of mood) might also be a numbness in the body social. Being a sportswoman, Mrs. Clark did not mean to play down the zest and pride of achievement, or to mute the challenge of possible failure. Restraint of expression is different from lack of response and inability to express...
...defeatist, no pessimist, he urges intellectuals to cultivate "the nerve of failure," to live with the possibility of disapproval and defeat. Neither in life nor in politics is this a formula for victory. But in both it may be a help in reducing numbness and restoring zest-which is the appropriate style of freedom...
...flourishing in the U.S. It has attracted such students as Novelist Wallace Stegner, such teachers as Pulitzer Prizewinning Poet Robert Lowell. Its staff helps edit Poetry magazine and the annual O. Henry Prize Stories collection, in one year managed to turn out six published novels.* But S.U.I.'s zest for experiment seems to extend through the humanities...
After his long siege of illness, Anthony Eden at 56 is feeling robust again and eager to take over as the Queen's first minister. His bout with the Russians at Berlin whetted his zest, and he came home with a tougher view about dealing with the Kremlin than that suggested by Sir Winston's still-evident yearning for a sweeping parley at the summit...