Word: zestfulness
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...Janeiro's broad sidewalks, with their wavy black and white lines, are famous for the visual life and zest they add to the city. Many European streets have the texture of roughhewn stone and are decorated as well. By contrast, sidewalks in the U.S. are merely straight and narrow paths of relative safety. Yet they can be more, as New Yorkers learned last week when "the Calder Sidewalk" suddenly appeared...
Departing Professors. Out of fear and weariness, the faculty has lost much of its zest for teaching. Says Hugh Richards, the 51-year-old acting chairman of the physics department: "I guess what depresses me most is that some of my colleagues are taking a second look at whether academic life is where they can make the most effective contribution and be happy." Many liberal arts faculty members are resentful of what they consider the administration's heavyhanded tactics during the past year. Nineteen professors had their pay docked, for instance, because they did not hold classes during...
...aboard his sturdy schooner Bowdoin. All the while, he made vast contributions to the world's knowledge of Eskimos, glacial movements, polar flora and fauna, and the geography of the Canadian Arctic archipelago. He was 80 before he finally retired, and even then he lost none of his zest for adventure into the unknown. Three years ago, Astronaut Alan Shepard Jr. asked the admiral whether he might be available for a moon trip: "Damn right," replied MacMillan...
Fellow Poets. Stretches of Imaginations seem as long, as desolate and as inexplicable as the New Jersey Turnpike. But many passages simply leap to life. As Williams puts it, "Up surges the good zest and the game...
...partial to sentimental operettas like Die Fledermaus and The Merry Widow, and made pilgrimages to the Wagner festival in Bayreuth. He scorned Herman Goring's zest for the hunt: "Today when anybody with a fat belly can safely shoot the animal down from a distance." Though he loved the Bavarian Alps, he found mountain climbers and skiers ridiculous. "If I had my way I'd forbid these sports, with all the accidents people have doing them," he once said. "But of course the mountain troops draw their recruits from such fools...