Word: merlin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When I was small. I exhausted the racks of fairy tales in the neighborhood library. Tales of witches and trolls, goblins and potions, never failed to enchant me. I was dazzled by the sorcery of Merlin and his professional colleagues, by the scheming of astrologers and the cauldrons of brooding witches. This was the world I was entering. No wonder I was apprehensive...
...leadership, the respect of the team. And he can read defenses." Which is a special kind of compliment, coming from Allen. A defensive coach for the Chicago Bears. Allen went to the Rams in 1966 preaching what he practiced best: defense. His work with Linemen Merlin Olsen, Deacon Jones, Roger Brown and Lamar Lundy gave them the muscular title, "Fearsome Foursome." As for Gabriel, Allen merely gave him the football, with instructions to keep it on the ground-"to let people know," explains Gabriel a bit defensively, "that we had a running game...
...Danny's office and formed a citizens' council to reinstate the coach. The players took a poll of the team and reported that 38 out of 40 loved Allen. Eight of them said that if he left, they would too. The team, said All-Pro Defensive Tackle Merlin Olsen, was not "the exclusive toy of a rich man." Danny was hurt, but lest the revolt further the movement for pro players to have more say in management, he tried to stand up to the big guys. He would not be pressured, he said, and if they...
...President) is a form favored by authors whose main interest is cash. But more and more serious writers are adding rooms and views to already created structures. In Numquam, Lawrence Durrell continues his story (begun in Tune) of the "thinking weed" Felix Charlock and his struggles with the vast Merlin corporation. Isaac Bashevis Singer transplants the children from The Manor in Poland to The Estate in America. Elsewhere in Europe, Sarah Gainham conducts what is left of her cast of Viennese characters from Night Falls on the City into the postwar era. C. P. Snow has achieved a double sequel...
...change, his fellow actors-notably Vittorio De Sica as a volatile Italian cardinal and Leo McKern as a jealous one-do not look embarrassed by their clerical robes. As Father Telemond, Werner appears uncommonly youthful for his 46 years; he seems fresher in each new movie, as if, like Merlin in The Once and Future King, he were living his life backwards. His role, unfortunately, requires him to do some pseudo-lofty philosophizing that sounds very much like a parody of Teilhard de Chardin-as it did in West's novel...