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Phillip Elia Areeda, Economics; Albert Ira Borowitz, Classics; Martin Boykan, Music; Irwin Merton Braverman, Biology; Nathaniel Phillips Carleton, Physics; Gary Felsenfeld, Biochemical Sciences; Leonard Jay Friedman, Chemistry; Charles Frederick Gallagher, Far Eastern Languages; De Witt Stettin Goodman, Biochemical Sciences; Richard Woodward Hulbert, History; Jules Alfred Kernen, Chemistry (1950); Howard Joseph Laster, Physics; Paul Cocil Martin, Physics (1952); Robert Kenyon Nesbet, Physics; Anthony Gervin Oettinger, Engineering Sciences; David Dodd Perkins, English; John Chapman Pittenger, History; Archibald Campbell Spencer, English; Donald Theodore Trautman, Economics; and Ariel Charle Zomach, Physics...
...awards indicated the stylistic range of the show, which was held together by what one Atlantan called "an almost frightening racial strength and feeling." Brooklyn's Merton Simpson won the top landscape prize with a near-abstraction called Landscape Symphony. Top money-winner ($300) was String Dance, a relatively academic study by Walter A. Simon, teacher at Virginia State College...
Some Other Virtue. Last week, U.S. readers, whose curiosity about the mystical and monastic aspect of Christianity may have been whetted by such bestselling authors as Trappist Thomas Merton, could sample the great St. Teresa* in an anthology of her work prepared by Msgr. William J. Doheny, C.S.C.: Selected Writings of St. Teresa of Avila (Bruce...
...Right from the beginning," said his Annapolis roommate, Merton ("Sticks") Wade, "he knew precisely what he wanted. He wanted to get to the top." And right from the beginning, as a boy, Forrest Sherman had wanted to go to sea. Before he could read, he was fascinated by woodcuts of sailing ships in an old history book. The high-school class prophet predicted confidently that he would be an admiral. His singleminded intentness was the kind that wins admiration, but seldom popularity. "You can't get good marks if you're popular," he once told his sister...
...laymen and educators, he thinks, are beginning to put less faith in mere organization to accomplish their purposes, the Catholic press is growing more interested in social problems, and the contemplative life is coming into its own, e.g., monasteries are turning applicants away and the autobiography of Trappist Thomas Merton is a bestseller. Escoulin looks to "an American Catholic Church more sure of itself, and at the same time more humble, having eliminated the complexes created in it by the historical and social situation" to "throw its weight decisively on the destiny of the United States and the entire world...