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...Zest & Relevance. This president, a Harvard man himself, can talk about "American culture" without a semblance of snobbishness. But he is quite as likely to talk about a "classless society...
...scientific celebrity and adventurer, he finds zest in teaching, mountain climbing, fishing and in trying a new flavor of ice cream, no less than in exploring the complicated structure of chlorophyll and in helping develop nuclear fission. He has the great capacity for growth that is the essence of the educated man. And his own breadth of intellectual interest is the essence of 310-year-old Harvard, whose motto is the single Latin word Veritas (Truth...
...they are more than ever impressed with his facility for learning "through the pores," for quickly grasping human as well as scientific problems-and they are quietly talking about Conant's presidential potentialities. Nobody has asked Jim Conant what he thinks, but at 53 he still has a zest for adventure...
Soon, he believed, a new type of man would dwell in Wessex-a man so naturally wounded and disillusioned that from the day of his birth his face would reflect not the zest for life of previous centuries, but only a morose determination somehow to survive. Beauty would become an unbearable irony. "Men," said Hardy shrewdly, "have oftener suffered from the mockery of a place too smiling for their reason than from the oppression of surroundings oversadly tinged...
...Play Cards? The Austrians like the Americans well enough. Viennese, who have good-naturedly renamed jeeps Schlampenschlepper (hussy buggies), fraternize with zest. But Austrians live in an old, proud civilization, still sprinkled with feudal glitter; while they fear that Russia might smash it completely, they are not so sure that the Americans, with their strange, casual-tough ways, might not harm it too. They would like to get rid of all occupiers, Eastern and Western alike. Viennese cabaret skits express their mood. Samples...