Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sharing the spotlight with the Cliffe student will be national sharing champ Dick Button 11 and Rugh Graham '55 Button will skate part of his '52 Olympic feature before the more than 1800 guests of the Big Green Outing Club...
Merton is obviously conversant with St. John of the Cross, St. Bernard, Aldous Huxley and Evelyn Waugh, but Graham thinks he is not too well grounded in his Bible ("Merton could have written all his books with less knowledge of the New Testament than the educated Christian layman's, eked out by a Scripture concordance.") "In one of his poems," writes Graham, "[he] is so far forgetful of the Book of Genesis as to speak of 'God and his bad earth...
...Monk in the World. The result of all this, according to Critic Graham, is a dangerous oversimplification. He disapprovingly quotes some of Merton's advice to his readers-"Do everything you can to avoid the amusements and the noise and the business of men ... do not read their newspapers ... do not bother with their unearthly songs." In short-Graham summarizes-"become a Trappist-Cistercian monk while living in the world...
Benedictine Graham thinks of his own monastery "not as an asylum in which to escape from the contagion of the worldly-minded, but as a place of withdrawal from which to obtain a truer view of the world God so loved as to send his Son to save it -a world to whose well-being [we] owe a direct contribution...
...Shipwrecked, by Graham Greene. The decline & fall of a genteel rotter who finds he is not unscrupulous enough to be successful; a re-issue of Greene's little-noted novel of 1935, England Made Me (TIME...