Word: zestfulness
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...intellectual substance who has nevertheless always remembered and created emotion." But to Professor Fenton it represented even more than that: "To the literary historian J.B. is a fruitful document, reminding us by its vibrancy and courage of the achievement of American literature in the past half-century ... of the zest and grace with which MacLeish's literary generation has performed...
Small size (for the most part, 5-10 students) is the one feature common to all of the proposed work-shops. This limit stems from a widely-held conviction that "clearly the most effective way of stimulating awareness and concern, honest scholarship and intellectual zest, is to put the student in close association with a man whose work is an affirmation of these qualities." "Close association" is the key phrase here; it is this circumstance which will, hopefully, "connect freshmen excitement with Faculty excitement." Beyond this one shared starting-point, the various roads to Mecca head off in extremely different...
Holler & Heroes. Tight races are nothing new in the National League. But what gives this one added zest is that it was unexpected: at season's start the champion Milwaukee Braves seemed to be shoo-ins. But the Brewers collapsed like the head on a beer, dropped 7 straight and landed in third place while the Giants and the Dodgers hustled like world-beaters...
...never does in the considerably-longer recorded version; probably it simply needs greater virtuosity than this cast could bring to it. Mr. Kilty does not take the play as seriously as he might, and the result is a rather superficial performance. But it is done with flamboyance and zest, and if the result is far from definitive, it is still delightful...
...zest to his collecting, Colonel Carter has had 863 TIME covers autographed by the cover subjects. Before he is through, he is certain he will have a complete set of all past TIME issues. But the autograph collection will be another matter. Some 800 of the subjects of TIME'S covers had died before he began his collection. Of the remaining 120-odd "possibles" still alive, most are what he calls "Reds and royalty," two categories that have not widely responded to his appeals, though he has the signatures of Yugoslavia's Tito and Italian Communist Palmiro Togliatti...