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...left San Francisco with an exhilaration that approached ecstasy -"with Christian mantras and a great sense of destiny, of being at last on my way after years of waiting and wondering and fooling around." Trappist Monk Thomas Merton, the best-known Christian mystic of this century, had been given leave from Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky to participate in a conference of monastic leaders near Bangkok. The trip was also to be a long-awaited personal encounter with the spiritual disciplines of the East, particularly the esoteric forms of Buddhism that Merton wished to explore in India with...
...suburb of Bangkok, on Dec. 10, 1968, barefoot and wet from a shower, Merton touched a defectively wired room fan and was electrocuted. His death prompted friends to speculate whether Merton would ever have returned to the U.S. from his enthusiastic plunge into Buddhism. The answer now seems to be yes, though he might not have returned to Gethsemani itself...
...Southeast Asia entitled. A Farewell to Arms. The first number of True Romance Languages, an intradepartmental magazine, stirs up mid-summer passions at the Faculty Club. Doris Kearns fictionalizes her biography of Lady Bird Johnson The Early Years and retitles it Tell me that you Love Mr. Dwight Le Merton Bolinger...
...more than 50 books of verse, fiction and literary criticism and in 1940 won a Pulitzer Prize for his spare, Frostian lyrics (Collected Poems), the classroom remained his focal point for 39 years. Among the students influenced by his gentle Socratic discourses were Novelist Jack Kerouac and Poets Thomas Merton, Allen Ginsberg and John Berryman. Though stunned by the 1959 scandal involving his son Charles, who had been fed answers on the TV quiz show Twenty-One, Van Doren remained a near-legendary figure whose guidance was eagerly sought by Columbia's pupils and graduates...
...Wills does not believe that the pre-conciliar church had the vitality to survive as it was much longer. His description of certain Catholic intellectuals of the '50s-with their enthusiasm for Merton and monasticism, Gregorian chant and the social encyclicals of the Popes-is witty but a bit condescending. As for the '60s, Teilhard de Chardin's cloudy, evolutionary mysticism gets no more praise than Pope John. Wills argues that both men did not fully see the consequences when they attempted to generalize or make programs from their private convictions...