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Today, "young" Jan Masaryk is 57 and the most popular diplomat in London-the most welcome of all those Continental statesmen who habitually visit the U.S. Full of bounce and zest and a bravura that was once described as "something out of the pages of Dumas," the tall (6 ft. 2 in.) extrovert has a selling power that could make Eskimos buy iceboxes. He looks like, and has all the making of, a successful American business man, an elegant European bon vivant, a world-famous orchestra leader, a magnetic political boss. But from his thin lips sometimes come words...
...usable unity in the shattered, disunited, warring and unhappy modern world, unanism is a conscious decentralization of thought. By its terms (which Romains makes unnecessarily complicated), the old unities that once provided the cement of social life-the sovereign, the church, the family-had lost their power to give zest and meaning to the everyday doings...
Buried amidst Supply specimens the last couple of weeks gave us a chance to catch our breath. Evidently one of our profound instructors was impressed by our zest; he stated (and sadly...
...Prophets. Conant desires the reappearance of the American radical-of the successor to the men who abolished primogeniture at the founding of the Republic, who "with zest destroyed the Bank of the United States in the times of Andrew Jackson." Such a man will "spring from the American soil," will be firm in the belief that "every man is as good as his neighbor, if not better"; will support "the ideas of Jefferson as against the more aristocratic and monarchical conceptions drawn from Europe"; and will have for his prophets not Marx, Engels and Lenin (to whom he will...
Clearly evident in They Got Me Covered is the fact that 17 Hollywood pictures and hundreds of radio and Army camp performances have failed to dull Hope's zest for his work. Far & away the hardest-traveling Army camp trouper in Hollywood, he has visited so many camps in the last year (including a 16,000-mile Alaskan junket) that even his press agents have lost count...