Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE, by Peter Shaffer, are clever, stylish, airy and bittersweet. These two one-acters explore the moods of love, antic and frantic. The players-Barry Foster, Geraldine McEwan, Brian Bedford and Moray Watson -are attuned like a fine string quartet...
...wonder about this man who just three years ago downgraded the idea that we could achieve peace through visits and talks and goodwill missions, and who is engaged almost around the clock with visits and talks and good will missions . . . We have peace only because General Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles had the guts to proclaim brinkmanship...
Kennedy's speech at the United Nations and Senator Fulbright's remarks could mark the start of a period for rational and unimpassioned appraisal of the space program. If the President and NASA foster such an atmosphere they will be able to get both Congress and the public to accept a realistic moon program. Neither the economy nor Project Apollo can afford the present pace...
...Public Eye has the edge in freshness and invention. Mr. Cristoforou (Barry Foster) materializes in an austerely elegant London office lined with muted leather bindings. Against this background, Cristoforou is a sartorial explosion of black and brown stripes, flaming yellow tie, a café-au-lait shirt, off-beige shoes, and foreign correspondent's raincoat. He is also a walking menu of odd goodies. Out of his pockets and briefcase, he dredges and devours bananas, Brazil nuts, cartons of yoghurt and handfuls of macaroons, while flourishing an empty sugarcellar. A Greek by descent, and a private detective by happenstance...
...husband and wife, Moray Watson and Geraldine McEwan strike precise discords. Barry Foster's vibrant Cristoforou is a more remarkable and indefinable creation, a Pan in spiv's clothing sounding pipes of pleasure that carry a lingering echo from ancient pagan groves...