Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before that happens two other characters appear on the scene. Foster (Michael Kitchen) and Briggs (Terence Rigby) are young, uncouth and vaguely sinister. They are apparently Hirst's factotums about the house, and his bodyguards. They aim insulting remarks at Spooner. While he is slightly intimidated, Spooner holds on like a barnacle, secure in the doggedly smug conviction of his genius despite his worldly failure. In retaliation, the bodyguards immerse Spooner in total darkness by switching off the lights and locking him in the drawing room for the night...
...happens that Hirst, Spooner, Foster and Briggs are the names of renowned 19th and early 20th century cricket players. Whatever Pinter, an ardent cricket fan, may have intended by that, No Man 's Land is a hilarious mine field of gamesmanship. The English relish putting each other down socially, intellectually and psychologically, and some of them are formidably adept at it. Pinter does it to perfection...
...University Committee on Biological Sciences, established by President Bok last spring to foster interaction between the two schools, will ask the Faculty to start classes a week earlier, and the Med School to open a week later than planned...
...think we played very exciting baseball. We ought to be more aggressive." For the Reds, lack of aggression meant stealing only one base. A seamless defense purloined potential Yankee hits, and strong Red arms kept New York base runners back on their heels. Outfielders George Foster, Cesar Geronimo and Ken Griffey fired balls back to the infield so quickly and so accurately that no Yankee was able to stretch a base hit. The pattern of the Series had emerged: the Yankees stopped at third...
Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said Thursday that he is in favor of house grills because they foster "smaller social units...