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...Brother Matthew locked the gate behind me, and I was enclosed in the four walls of my new freedom." Thus in his bestselling autobiography did Thomas Merton describe the moment he arrived to become a postulant at Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in rural Kentucky. It was the Advent season of 1941, three days after Pearl Harbor. By eerie coincidence, Dec. 10 was also the date of Merton's mysterious 1968 death. As the anniversary of his death and religious birth came round again this Christmas season, Merton disciples were enjoying a host of new material on the modern...
...third year of creating dazzling surprises, the MacArthur fund named 13 other academics and professionals in its latest crop of fellows, including Economist Alice Rivlin, who is resigning as director of the Congressional Budget Office, and two distinguished Columbia University scholars: Sociologist Robert Merton and Soviet Specialist Seweryn Bialer...
...deluge of plastics, junk food, bad movies, cheap goods and trashy thought? The question has been asked since well before the decline of Athens; the answer is generally yes-but wait. There is an enduring ecology of excellence in the world. It is a good idea to remember Thomas Merton's question: "How did it ever happen that, when the dregs of the world had collected in Western Europe, when Goth and Frank and Norman and Lombard had mingled with the rot of old Rome to form a patchwork of hybrid races, all of them notable for ferocity, hatred...
Sporadic attempts to involve more members in running the tourney have failed. Current President Merton E. Thompson sent letters to all club members asking for help, as did Harold Solomon, president of the ATP and this year's second seed. But many who offered aid were turned aside. One person wanted to sell advertising for the program; bickering over commissions and authority finally drove her away, as they have so many others...
...confided to a reporter from his Omaha high school newspaper: "It's just a hobby." But at the urging of Actress Dorothy Brando, who was then raising Baby Marlon, young Henry Fonda had joined the Omaha Community Playhouse and soon had the leading role in Merton of the Movies. Over the next half century, his "hobby" took him to Hollywood and well beyond, but his heart remained in Omaha. In 1955, along with Daughter Jane Fonda, who was then making her acting debut, he starred in an Omaha production of The Country Girl that raised money for the playhouse...