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...author of the first volume, Merton J. Peck, now professor of economics at Yale University, felt that it had "some impact, but how great an impact I couldn't say" on the changes made by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara in the awarding of defense contracts. "It didn't outsell Earle Stanley Gardner in the Pentagon bookstore, but it sold well for its type of book," Peck commented...
...church journals to accept and define civil rights as a theological problem. Although Methodist morality frowns on premarital sex, motive has dealt sensitively and sympathetically with student difficulties related to the problem. Such is the magazine's reputation for intellectual openness that theologians of the stature of Thomas Merton, Joseph Sittler and Albert Outler have frequently contributed some of their freshest thoughts to its pages, although $50 is maximum pay for an article...
DIRECTIONS '66 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Kurd Hatfield in a biography of Trappist Monk and Author Thomas Merton...
Before Pastures, Connelly collaborated with George S. Kaufman on such hits as Dulcy and Merton of the Movies. Since then he has sojourned for ten years in Hollywood, writing and doctoring movie scripts (Captains Courageous, I Married a Witch), and has contributed short stories and humor to The New Yorker-a magazine he helped found. He has also produced and directed Broadway shows (Everywhere 1 Roam, Having Wonderful
...Thomas Merton, the compleat bohemian who became a Trappist monk at 26, has carried on an astringent "dialogue with the world" ever since. In his 24 years as a member of Kentucky's Abbey of Gethsemani, he has built a seven-storey mountain of poems, autobiography, reflection and translation that attests to his continuing concern for mankind at large. In this collection of essays and letters, Merton punctures the white liberal's complacent participation in the civil rights movement as a kind of self-indulgence that is of "no interest to the Negro." In his view, what...