Word: zestfulness
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...Architect Eero Saarinen (TIME, July 2, 1956), combining quarters for veterans' services and a new home for the Milwaukee Art Institute in an open, dramatically cantilevered structure built for $2,700,000. In its first five weeks of full operation, the Memorial Center has already added new zest to community life and revitalized art interest in the city. The Art Institute's housewarming show-some $3,000,000 worth of masterworks by El Greco, Rembrandt, Goya, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Picasso-drew a record turnout of 53,031 visitors, more than the museum...
...Little Picture." Murrow's zest for chasing fire engines on a global scale sometimes forces him to commute across oceans to keep his weekly date on Person to Person. By the time the show's technicians have torn their five tons of equipment out of a visited celebrity's home, Murrow may be on a plane to Washington to lay the groundwork for a new See It Now or closeted in a projection room to edit film for one already in work. At the end of a routine day's conferring, writing, filming or reporting...
...happily with Brown's observation on slurred speech ("To slur is human") or Guest Panelist S. J. Perelman's near classic, "I've got Bright's disease-and he's got mine.'' What riles the audience more is Scholar Evans' zest for breaking old grammatical commandments. Evans accepts "it is me," prefers "ain't" to the awkward "am I not," thinks it fine to occasionally split infinitives, regards prepositions as good things to end sentences with. Says the professor: "When I say, 'Well, that...
...next eleven months Miss Moore heard nothing more. Then, on Nov. 8, 1956, Wallace dropped Poetess Moore a short note: "We have chosen a name out of the more than 6,000-odd candidates that we gathered. It fails somewhat of the resonance, gaiety and zest we were seeking. But it has a personal dignity and meaning to many of us here. Our name, dear Miss Moore, is-Edsel...
...himself to Buckingham Palace, there presented his credentials to Queen Elizabeth II. Noting that officials of the U.S. embassy have been criticized for concentrating on London to the rest of the country's loss, London's Daily Telegraph hoped that "Jock" Whitney, a millionaire with a real zest for getting around, would bring a "new start in this respect." The Telegraph also retrospectively hailed "the new Ambassador's firm break with the more absurd social conventions of New York society." In Tokyo, meanwhile, Career Diplomat Douglas MacArthur II, bearer of a name that still inspires respect...