Word: merlin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...modern Merlin, conjuring up astonishing new notions of space and time, changing forever man's perception of his universe ?and of himself. He fathered relativity and heralded the atomic age with his famed formula E=mc2. Yet his formidable reputation never undermined his simple humanity. He spoke out courageously against social injustice. In his later years, dressed in baggy clothes, his white hair as unkempt as a sheep dog's, he helped yourgsters with their geometry homework, still loved to sail, play Mozart melodies on the violin and scribble reams of doggerel. Though he has been dead nearly...
Berger's borrowings from Le Morte d'Arthur are eccentric. At times, he hovers close to the celebrated tale of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, chronicling their legendary exploits, the magical interventions of Merlin and the quest for the Holy Grail. But his treatment of the romances between Tristram and Isold, Launcelot and Guinevere reads like a medieval version of Couples. Querulous and selfabsorbed, the lovers are made to suffer the mutual incomprehension of male chauvinists and radical feminists. "Being a woman," the author says of Guinevere, "she could not understand honor and justice...
Iowa City (pop. 49,000), a faculty town?the University of Iowa is the main industry?with a taxpaying base of prospering middle-class professionals, was in an innovative mood. It approved when Merlin Ludwig, then superintendent of schools, granted West's 1,040 students a nonvoting chair on the board of education in 1970. Ludwig also introduced a more flexible curriculum. Grades were abolished at the elementary-school level, and a pass-fail option was installed at West. As a final gesture, Ludwig declared a new motto for his school district: "Iowa City Puts the Student First." In short...
...growing up in Los Angeles, the whole family would sit around and watch roller derbies and wrestling-the only things that were on sometimes in those days," says Clarke. "In 1949 that little flickering black and white image in your living room was like some invention of Merlin." Clarke, who came to TIME in 1965, was our Show Business writer in the early '70s, and returned to the job full time last January. These days he keeps up with new programming fare on one of five of Merlin's inventions in his Manhattan apartment and summer home...
...sided compromises in which the Israelis will pay." With their acute sense of survival-a sense developed in the ghettos of the Diaspora and the horrors of the Holocaust-most U.S. Jews regard that threat as far more important than Israel's internal politics. Says Marjorie Merlin Cohen, executive director of the National...