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Over the ages, counts, princes and marquises have flourished and multiplied in Italy like olive trees. In the Italian view, a fancy title, like oil on a lettuce leaf, lends zest and flavor to a man's name. Italy's House of Savoy doled out titular rank in the Order of the Crown of Italy to almost half a million Italians. A janitor with 30 years' service-in a government ministry was virtually assured of a knighthood, and the right to be addressed as cavaliere...
...once or twice a year elicit vigorous interest. Several masters judged these activities particularly valuable because they introduced students to "work for work's sake" rather than work for the sake of being a big shot. French was particularly surprised that varsity athletes in their off seasons showed great zest for College sports...
...Bernstein ignored the warning and kept on working, but without the old zip and zest. Last May he had a real heart attack-a shutdown in a branch of the artery which feeds the heart muscle. He recalls that after he went back to work, "when I went to sleep I wasn't sure I'd wake up. I lived in fear." So far his history had paralleled that of hundreds of thousands of U.S. victims of coronary disease...
...word is that Bierman is slipping. If he runs onto just one little banana peel this fall, the otherwise fairminded citizens of Minneapolis will ride him out of town with zest...
...philosophy were closer than their Army or Air Force colleagues to the subtle interaction of prestige, politics and physical force. The Korean war is a weirdly pertinent example of the warning that Radford & Co. were trying to give the U.S. For their case, it was unfortunate that in their zest to make it, they got sidetracked in an assault on the Air Force's long-range bomber...