Word: becks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beck (Lowell...
...area's power companies have belatedly mounted a massive effort to overhaul, augment and modernize equipment and procedures. At the On tario Hydro-Electric Power Commission's Sir Adam Beck Plant No. 2, where the region-wide short circuit originated in an overloaded relay fuse, more relays have been added to in crease the system's safety margin. To prevent the area's vast, interlocking power grid from being pulled down again, newly designed switches have been installed in northwestern New York State so that the southern part of the system can automatically cut itself...
Generators & Computers. Through out the area, electric companies have bought oil-fueled "black start" generators to help reactivate giant turbines more quickly. Some companies are making plans to install computers programmed to monitor loads and correct "cascading" frequencies of the kind touched off by the Beck blowout. New York's Kennedy International Airport, whose runway lights vanished before the eyes of bewildered jet captains, has put in eight diesel generators that can kick on within twelve seconds...
...Lowell House production does this admirably most of the time, but has a tendency to mix, or imperfectly finish its conventions. The third act opening (where the play stops because seven of the company are struck with botulism) is magnificent and hilarious because the whole company, especially Beck and Jamie Rosenthal (playing a Miss Somerset playing Sabina, George Antrobus' maid and quondam mistress) degenerates from high flown symbols to grumbling Loebies. The switch is drastic and devastating...
...eternal feminine. But it is her voice that commands. Her motions are stiff and awkward in key scenes. Nightingale who outfits a comic chorus with amazing props and movements (they make marvelous animals going into the Ark), seems to have directed disembodied voices in the serious scenes. Even Beck, the company's most polished performer, often appears unsure of what to do with his hands at dramatic moments. The power of the scenes, especially the ends of the three acts, is undercut...