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...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE, two one-acters by Peter Shaffer, play Getting to Know You, first to the sketchy theme of boyish bunglings in a scrubby flat, second to the more artful airs of a detective shadowing a seemingly errant wife...
...dignified top hat sat squarely upon his head, but beneath it a boyish grin showed that the young man was having the time of his life. On that day-Jan. 20, 1961-John Fitzgerald Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th President of the United States. And when he had taken the oath of office, he stood bareheaded in a bitter winter wind and delivered an inaugural address that crackled with the gusto of youth, yet had an eloquence that was ageless...
...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE, two one-acters by Peter Shaffer, play Getting to Know You, first to the sketchy theme of boyish bunglings in a scrubby flat, second to the more artful airs of a detective shadowing a seemingly errant wife...
...patient, outwardly phlegmatic disposition, not easily touched by the heat of emotion, danger or disaster. As the grim-faced stream of ministers came and went through the black door of No. 10 Downing Street, the watching crowds got no hint of crisis from Lord Home's broad, boyish grin and jaunty stride. The Prime Minister-designate seemed serenely untouched by the jealousies and conspiracies of his riven party. As one Tory said not long ago: "He's never scared. He just looks at you with that damn-your-eyes look and goes right on with what...
...would have to be much more cautious in what I said." But this restriction has been much less irksome than he had feared. Reischauer estimates that he is still able to express openly about 95 per cent of what he would like to. But he admits with a boyish grin that on occasion he will preface a comment with "Well, I can't answer that as Ambassador, but if you want an answer as a professor...