Word: merlins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read the inscription on King Arthur's tombstone, according to Sir Thomas Malory. The King would, at some indeterminate date, return to life and reign again; meanwhile, Here lies King Arthur the once and future King. It is doubtful that Malory or even Merlin himself could possibly have guessed just where Arthur would make his comeback: that he would appear on Dec. 3, 1960 on the stage of Broadway's Majestic Theater...
...Lookouts. The klaxon girls are the gaudiest example of an upsurge of prostitution that has occurred since a law sponsored by Socialist Angelina Merlin banned state-supervised brothels in 1958 (Merlin advocates insist it is only coincidence). But last week the Health Ministry reported that cases of syphilis registered in state clinics have doubled since 1957, and Rome's II Tempo charged that "the number of prostitutes has shown a marked increase." Since the Merlin law reforms, prostitutes can be jailed in Italy only when caught in the act. To guard against this misfortune, the klaxon girls have begun...
...success. He wrote speedily-his editors noted that his manuscripts were scarcely ever blotted-and turned out an average of two plays a year. Plots to Shakespeare were like pots to Merlin: any borrowed tub, from Holinshed's Chronicles to Plutarch's Lives, would do to mix the magic in. One of the intellectuals of the day, Robert Greene, addressing his university-trained colleagues, Nashe, Peele and Marlowe, sneered at the "upstart crow, beautified with our feathers." But Londoners worshiped...