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Keep On Working. Merton's autobiography charts the gradual transformation of a worldly young pagan into a Roman Catholic ascetic. Most of its final hundred pages are a striking description of the life he now leads at the Trappist monastery of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky. The severe...
"You are not supposed to pause and pray while you are at work. American Trappist notions of contemplation do not extend to that: on the contrary you are expected to make some act of pure intention and fling yourself into the business and work up a sweat and get a...
The learned ornithologist, who paid more attention to pass defense then Jane Russell, would have consumed three dozen 50--cent cigars in doleful contemplation of the Crimson's haplessness against the Columbia aerial attack.
Contemplation v. Fishing. Chariot's own work, nonetheless, is strikingly original. His new paintings were mostly religious in theme, though they transferred the Biblical settings to Mexico.* Given Chariot's Mexican materials, a lesser artist would have done something picturesque, suitable for pious tourists, but Chariot's...
This summer the pleasant pattern for contemplation was threatened. The municipal health department decided to attack the fly and mosquito population by air-spraying the town with DDT solution. Private goldfish fanciers were outraged at the danger to the fish population.