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...well-known actors, Helen Mirren and Nicol Williamson, pose deeper problems, and offer more radical solutions. Of Morgana, mistress of mandrake and sulfur, Mirren makes an armored, camp enchantress. Swathed in purple veils and seaweed capes, intoning Merlin's dread spells as if they contained the dirtiest and most sacred words in any world, incarcerating the wizard in a cocoon of cotton candy as she proclaims victory over her mentor, Mirren convinces that she could charm a kingdom-or a film- with her perfidy...
Last week something new had been added. Fresh spray-painted signs on the walls declared: KEEP VINCENNES IN VINCENNES and NO TO DISMANTLING OUR ZOO. The latest watchwords were responses to the sudden resignation of Vincennes' beleaguered president, Pierre Merlin, 42, and the renewed determination of the French government to cut down the university's size by moving it to the working-class Paris suburb of Saint-Denis...
...against 45.5% in the U.S.), but so far, except at Vincennes, France has had little diploma devaluation. The doings at Vincennes stirred conservative ire, and the French government made political capital by announcing that it would move the Vincennes campus this June. Resistance came from students and Vincennes President Merlin, who has struggled long and manfully against the school's drug problems and the politicization of the campus...
Last week, the day after students held him prisoner in his office for 13 hours for charging six foreign students with using false identity papers, President Merlin abruptly resigned. It was not the indignity, he explained. It was the fact that "a majority of the students had failed to react against ultraleftists who are destroying Vincennes." With his departure, the move to Saint-Denis seems inevitable...
...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...