Word: zestfulness
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...Shirley B. Goodwin fights for his elderly compatriots with a zest that captures the spirit of Dylan Thomas' immortal advice to mortal man. Forced to retire four years ago as social relations executive of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese-of Massachusetts, he has been crusading ever since against what he sees as the injustice of being "thrown...
...Rasputin of fraud. The straggly hair that frames his craggy Florentine features is a fright wig of deceit. His flamingo legs carry him with awkward zest from sin to sin, while his tongue utters unguentary lies. Yet we are too conscious that he is a self-aware villain, scoring stunning acting points without carrying complete emotional conviction. And Stefan Gierasch's Orgon is not quite the ideal foil. He seems more like an exacerbated paterfamilias who wants Tartuffe to cow his recalcitrant brood rather than a breathless gull hopelessly infatuated by a bogus saint...
...staff and get people who know how this city runs. Nothing is so effective in the White House as a staff of young men and women who love the office, love the work, love the city, love politics, and who travel through the back corridors with laughter and zest...
...time high; the jobless rate for white youths, meanwhile, stood at 12.6%. George Meany echoed the blacks' complaint by rebuking Carter for putting a balanced budget ahead of a full-employment program. "If we do [balance the budget], all our problems will be over," scoffed Meany, his zest for combat undimmed by his 83 years. "There will be dancing in the streets of the ghettos, and I think even Moscow might put up a white flag of surrender...
...need to shift into metaphysical gear. Yet consider the vanner's relationship to the van: the true vanner has not merely romanced the motor vehicle in the traditional American way. Actually, the vanners have embraced and subjugated the homely panel truck and, with Pygmalion's zest if not his graces, have transmogrified it into something utterly new and distinct: a mobile monument to self. It is self-contained and self-containing, and its womby little room is packed with the motherly comforts of home, while its skin screams advertisements of the inhabitant's wistful dreams...