Word: zest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Author Pikul's suggestion that the empress slept with Rasputin, for which there is no basis in fact, seems designed merely to appeal to the prurient interests of the proletariat. So do passages alluding to Rasputin's vast sexual appetite and his zest for orgies-which have been amply documented by historians. But the book seemingly has other and more unsavory functions. One is to encourage the xenophobia that still has a strong hold on the many Russian chauvinists in the elite, who believe that alien forces have caused their homeland's troubles down through the ages...
...London's fashionable West End, he dazzled Mayfair dinner parties with imitations of leading politicians that wounded with the precision of a fine steel rapier. His public manner lent a youthful zest to politics that the British public openly admired. Thorpe's fall from grace, therefore, was all the more dramatic. In surprisingly sympathetic words, the prosecuting counsel, Peter Taylor, noted: "The tragedy of this case ... is that Mr. Thorpe has been surrounded and in the end his career blighted by the Scott affair. His story is a tragedy of truly Greek or Shakespearean proportions-the slow...
...years old and mostly girls, so far-at Lexington Senior High1 School. There are many services for divorced parents now, but so far only some two dozen such groups throughout the country for kids. The one in Lexington is known as the Divorced Kids Group, a name with more zest than, say, Children of Broken Homes Group, but not entirely satisfactory. Why should children define themselves by their parents' behavior? Howard Schofield, the counselor who started the group, feels the children's acknowledgment of their predicament is the first step toward feeling less helpless about it. Says Helen...
BRITAIN Maggie Gets A for Action With zest and drive, the new Prime Minister sweeps into office...
...With zest, an unaccustomed light touch and the drive of a workaholic, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher swept grandly into office last week. The widely accepted grading of her initial high-speed performance: A for action...