Word: beryl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heroine (Beryl Reid) has for years played the part of a kindly rural nurse. Sister George, in a sentimentally bucolic radio serial about a small English country town. In the serial, Sister George performs good deeds and put-puts around on her motor bike singing hymns with homey off-pitch piety. Off the air, in her London flat, Sister George is a horsy, cigar-chewing, gin-swilling, bull-roaring lesbian who coarsely flays her pliant companion, "Childie...
...hard to feel really sorry for her, but Beryl Reid brings her to such vividly bitchy life that it is also hard to take the eye or mind off her. Equally expert and subtle are the acting strokes with which Eileen Atkins and Lally Bowers brush in the characters of the other two witches. Frank Marcus' spoofing of the BBC is the weakest aspect of his play, but his stingingly unsentimental probe of what is foolish, vile, vain, concupiscent, and servile in the human animal stirs up a cauldron of laughter...
Lisser's exit under pressure brought on a well-deserved counter-revolt. All but two of the 55-member I.S. 201 faculty-including its 26 Negroes-refused to teach under anyone except Lisser. Assistant Principal Beryl Banfield, a Negro named to replace him, indignantly declined, because, she said, "I object to being chosen on the basis of color, not competence...
Already, says Economist Beryl Sprinkel of Chicago's Harris Trust and Savings Bank, the inflationary situation is "about three times as bad as any we've had over the past 15 years." Even the most liberal of the "New Economists," whose free-spending policies have helped sustain the five-year boom, are openly troubled. "We've passed the point of creeping inflation," said M.I.T.'s Paul Samuelson, "and reached the point of crawling inflation...
...bill filed yesterday in the legislature calls for the establishment of a committee to review the study. The legislation, filed jointly by Price, Sen. Beryl D. Cohen (D-Brookline), and Rep. John W. Frenning (D-Boston) is actually a parliamentary device. A bill incorporating the suggestions of the report will be introduced as a substitute amendment to it next January...