Word: zestfulness
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While I admire Senator Zorinsky's zest for independent decision making, I feel the story illuminates a faulty, if common, misconception of senatorial responsibility. With respect to matters of broad national concern, a legislator should represent his constituency by making the decision he feels will best serve the overall interest of the country. A Senator who makes every judgment while looking toward the next election serves neither his country nor his state...
...most effective when he turned more personal, toward the end, invoking the nation's flag-lowered mourning for Hubert Humphrey. The Senator's "joy and zest of living" provided an example of the "special American kind of confidence, of hope and enthusiasm," which, Carter suggested, ought to become contagious...
...living photographer is more obsessed with his subject than Beard, he works out the obsession at a calculated aesthetic distance. Usually that is imposed by the view from a light plane. The most effective images in his mortuary chapel to the elephant (an installation done with gloomy theatrical zest by Designer Marvin Israel) are all taken from above. The huddled corpses with torn mackintosh skin, their bones scattered, their tissues ravaged, are grotesque and pitiful. They are also perversely elegant in the extreme: a ballet of unrecognizable performers, Muybridge's Animal Locomotion in full decay...
...conference was run with more efficiency and dispatch, more zest and panache than most conventions dominated by men. There was an infectious mood of ebullience that made women open, communicative and tolerant of slights. Never far out of camera range, stalking the podium like some watchful mother bear anxious for her brood, Bella Abzug mellowed considerably for the occasion. She even joked about the Congressman who scoffed that the girls had gone to Houston for boozing and carousing. Abzug's zinging putdown: "I have attended many meetings, but I have never heard any women ask for call boys...
...Beirut's banking street, Riad el Solh, all 73 prewar banks have resumed operation, including such multinational giants as Chase Manhattan, Barclays Ltd and Mitsubishi. The street corners outside are given over to smaller entrepreneurs with just as much Phoenician zest for commerce. They hawk everything from quarts of Johnnie Walker scotch to Barbie dolls; a good part of the merchandise comes from inventories assembled by looting. Says Citibank Manager John Bernson: "We're beginning to see unmistakable signs of that old Beiruti personality coming to the surface again...