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McCarthy's zest for chance, life, personal combat and the power of wealth seems undiminished. He still likes to rub his hands in thick, crude oil and mutter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: King of the Wildcatters | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

...Patience" has a great deal of very light and tuneful music. It demands the light touch to put it across with the zeat required to create and enjoyable performance. I have infrequently soon so much zest and life put into anything, and I have never seen a more enjoyable presentation of "Patience...

Author: By Brenton Welling, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

Plunging from a chuckle to a shout, bellowing into a telephone in his broad Yiddish accent, flourishing an unlit cigar, Dubinsky directs this show with shirt-sleeved zest and an even hand. Says he: "You've got to be on your toes, not on your bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Little David, the Giant | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...fierce breed of golfers who inhabit the nation's 1,800 public courses; they carry their own clubs, fight for fairway rights, and have little or no time to worry about the more genteel aspects of what is sometimes regarded as a genteel game. In their zest for the title, some of last week's competitors just missed beating their opponents over the head with mashie niblicks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Anybody's Open | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

They usually did. Although Mencken tore great holes in the fabric of U.S. manners & morals, he almost always let in more air than light. His job, at a time when the job needed doing, was to cudgel Comstockery and hack at hypocrisy, and he did both with a zest that makes his pages effervesce 30 years after their subjects were topical. Mencken, whatever the college boys may have thought a quarter-century ago, was no great thinker; he was a man of stout prejudices, with a gift and vocabulary for iconoclastic expression even richer than Mark Twain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unregenerate Iconoclast | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

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