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Thinking Weed. Durrell's representation of the cultural climate is Merlin otherwise known as The Firm, an international syndicate with tentacles in all the world's major markets. It is the embodiment of 20th century scientism, an emotionally neutral, self-perpetuating system of techniques that can be used for good or evil. Drawn into The Firm's cushy embrace is Inventor Felix Charlock, who sees himself as a "thinking weed," a pun on Pascal's definition of man as a "thinking reed." The Firm wants Charlock for his new recording device, which leads to the development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Abel Is the Novel, Merlin Is The Firm | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

...ride. Right Tackle Roger Brown, 30, operates on the theory that "the opposing team hates me and is trying to cut off my career, so I'm going to hurt them first"-and at 6 ft. 5 in. and 295 Ibs., it hurts a lot. Left Tackle Merlin Olsen, 27 (6 ft. 5 in., 275 Ibs.), is the intellectual of the bunch-he is writing his master's thesis on "The World Sugar Crisis," and says: "Racking up quarterbacks is exciting. I like to bloody them up a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Four at the Heart | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

...exact count, Olsen and his chums have nailed enemy quarterbacks behind the line of scrimmage no less than 43 times this year, and they have allowed opposing runners an average of only 3.1 yds. per carry. "Some day," says Merlin, "the four of us want to play the perfect game: allow them no points and minus yards on the ground, and even off their passing yardage by dumping their quarterback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Four at the Heart | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

...poetry. Says Mount Holyoke Poet and History Professor Peter Viereck: students "crave the ever more shocking and ever more new. They are looking more for emotional release than purely artistic merit." Verse for edification or moral uplift; he adds, "is totally dead. A poem like Tennyson's Merlin and the Gleam would be the laughingstock of a coffeehouse today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poets: The Second Chance | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...once honorable profession of wizardry, which has declined in prestige ever since Merlin succumbed to the Lady of the Lake, may have been permanently discredited some 14 centuries later by the combination of television and Robert M. Shelton Jr. Though impeccably accredited as Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, Shelton, 37, a semiliterate, ferret-faced Alabaman, failed so completely last year to cast a spell on either the TV audience or the House Un-American Activities Com mittee that he was widely tuned out by the former and charged by the latter with contempt of Congress. Specifically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: The Wiz That Was | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

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