Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...description dwindled off into a thicket of punctuation dashes. "The good picture- No one wonders at more than the one who created it. Made-with an inborn instinct,-in which time begets an awareness -and these periods of awareness are- The-red letter-days in the Creator's life...
Halfhearted Search. "America," Trappist Merton has written, "is discovering the contemplative life." British Novelist Evelyn Waugh- supports such a possibility. In a letter to Author Merton, Waugh said: "I believe there are thousands of men and women in the world who are temperamentally suited to monastic life but have no effective vocation simply because they are ignorant of the very existence of religious life. Indeed, a thesis might be developed to show that the health of society depends on a right balance between monks and laymen-the revolution of the 14th Century took place because the monasteries were full...
...Seven Storey Mountain feel themselves called to contemplation. In Boston, where booksellers estimate that 85% of Merton's buyers are Catholics, readers have objected that the faith he writes about is too emotional, and not sufficiently based on cold reason. Commonest objections of Boston Protestants: "A life of contemplation is all very fine, but it doesn't help solve any of the world's problems...
...surprise. Said Mrs. Georgia Lecken, manager of the book department in Rich's department store: "I would say that Protestants and Jews are buying it from us more than Catholics." But Georgia bookdealers do not see this as evidence of the South's yearning for the contemplative life. The booming sales are rather attributed to Protestant curiosity about behind-the-scenes Catholic activities-especially within a Trappist monastery...
...Write to-day for . . . FREE Sealed Book, with its amazing revelations about these mysteries of life." Last week this ad, like hundreds of others before it in such respectable publications as the New York Times Magazine Section, was bringing sacks of letters to the headquarters of the Rosicrucians in San Jose, Calif. After receiving their free Sealed Book, some of the ad-answerers would go on to become members of AMORC (the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis) and pay dues of $2.50 a month to learn "through alchemy, metaphysics and cosmology" how to be happy. But many a faithful...