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Moment of Faith. Brother Antoninus, 46, came to his vocation through labyrinthine ways. Born William Everson in Sacramento, Calif., to a Norwegian-born bandmaster turned printer, he put in some time at Fresno State College, married his 1 high school sweetheart ("A square thing, but it happens to be the truth"), and was overwhelmed by the poetry of Robinson Jeffers. His other literary landmarks: D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. "They were the crystallizing books of my pre-Catholic formation," says Brother Antoninus. "They have a kind...
...Bill Everson learned about religious anarchy at a camp for conscientious objectors during the war. When that was over, his marriage on the rocks, he joined the group of creative and not-so-creative bums around Poet Kenneth Rexroth that began the "San Francisco renaissance." before Beatniks Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg came out from Manhattan and put the movement in the news. "I'm pre-beat," says Brother Antoninus...
...Christmas Eve in 1948, he became a Catholic. Since he and his girl could not be married (the church ruled both of their previous marriages valid), they split up. After a year writing poetry on a Guggenheim fellowship, Everson joined the Catholic Worker movement in Oakland. Fourteen months later he became Dominican Brother Antoninus at Oakland's St. Albert's College. Except for an unsuccessful attempt to study for the priesthood ("I couldn't see it through for psychological reasons") and a three-week protest walkout (he objected to the installation...
...phenomenon is still a complete mystery. According to Surgeons Tilden C. Everson and Warren H. Cole, who have long studied it at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, there is no single cause, but there are likely combinations of causes. Some people may be able to develop antibodies against a possible cancer virus; others may have hormonal changes that are just right for killing cancer. Nutrition of cancer may also be reduced or regression may follow fever or acute infection. Such possibilities are all remote; but the fact that the body sometimes knows how to kill cancer may some...
...RICHARD EVERSON Pittsburgh...