Word: zestfulness
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Young Dr. Merrill Moore of Boston is known as a psychiatrist, semiprofessional swimmer and author of 25,000 good and bad sonnets. With all his zest for life, Dr. Moore is most interested in the problem of suicide, has collected many scientific facts on this phenomenon. Last week in The New England Journal of Medicine he discussed the agent most commonly used by would-be suicides: iodine...
...fault of enthusiasm or lack of practice could be heard in the Lowell House Musical Society's performance of "Dido and Aeneas." Aided by a group from Radcliffe the singers entered into the occasion with a zest worthy both of Purcell's score and the lyrics of Nahum Tate, the Poet-Laureate of Restoration England, and they carried off the play with considerable colat. Particularly pleasant to the ear was Miss Nasmyth, the ardent and rejected heroine. Her singing was marked by beauty and clarity of tone, and her reserved expression strengthened the pathos of the third...
...easier than others, and some are of more value than others to the average student; but none are simple or valueless. With this in mind their relative worth can be approximated; and the criteria used include the organization of course material, its interest to a well-educated person, and zest with which lecturers and instructors impart their pearls of knowledge...
...also the annoyance of having to report this and that and the other thing to every official who comes along. . . . I used to feel happy when I'd come down to work in the morning. I'd whistle a tune and meet the day with some zest. Today there's nothing but grief...
Cantor: Hark! Out of the deep . . . Dark . . . Inner vast . . . Gulf of carnal sleep . . . Full, fast . . . Thou up-wellest . . . One . . . As on a sea . . . Remote! . . . No Thee . . . And Thine . . . Ineffable, lavished . . . Zest . . . In ravished . . . Rest . . . Divine! (Soft shudder of great gong...