Word: zestful
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...retirement was no reflection on his performance. He was 68 years old; his wife Marion had died of cancer last month, and he no longer had the zest and energy to put out a daily newspaper. Looking back, however, he could take pride in having made the Press one of the best papers in the nation because it served Cleveland. "Our newspaper has integrated itself into this community in a way no other newspaper in America has," he said. "It is the journalistic rock upon which this city is built...
...British Philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin or Composer Gian Carlo Menotti, Schlesinger could, and did, arrange it. He was the connoisseur on art and literature, movies and martinis, and he served as the Administration's bridge to the intellectual community. He savored the pleasures and perquisites of power with zest...
...brief flashback Director Ted Kotcheff literally splices in a little Room for improvement-shots from the earlier film to establish nostalgia, most notably a tantalizing glimpse of Oscar Winner Simone Signoret retreating into the mist. A smoothly professional cast clips off the randy dialogue with an inexhaustible zest for every sign of moral decay in the life of a British provincial town. Yet a film as good as Room at the Top creates no valid curiosity about the further adventures of Joe Lampton, whose future was contained in his past. Lured to this steamy sequel, bombarded with reminders...
...went home and cried every day." She stuck it out, today has a $6,250 job on the reference desk of the main New York Public Library, where she fields queries from Bryant Park bums and world-renowned scholars. Her life, she says, has never held such "gaiety, zest and ebullience-it's like a good second marriage...
...months Author Money recorded the leaps and pirouettes of Dame Margot Fonteyn, Nureyev and the other members of Britain's Royal Ballet. His several hundred photographs and sketches, many in color, fall a bit short of technical perfection. This is more than compensated for by the zest and understanding that went into their execution; before too long, Money knew the choreography as well as the dancers. His scenes of the company in the studio, the ballerinas in practice leotards and the heavy, woolen leggings worn for warmth, have a special charm. One can quarrel, however, with Money...