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...young American gave their testimony about mysticism. A Call to What Is Vital (Macmillan; $2) is the last book written by Rufus M. Jones, a Quaker elder statesman until his death last June at 85. The Seven Storey Mountain* (Harcourt Brace; $3) is the autobiography of Thomas Merton, 33, a convert to Roman Catholicism who is now a Trappist monk in Kentucky...
Both men re-emphasize two facts often forgotten: the world still has millions of mystics, and the most mystical human beings are often among the most practical as well. Merton cites St. Francis, whose visions did not keep him from down-to-earth social work, and the contemporary Catherine de Hueck, with her Roman...
...similar vision came to Merton during a Mass in 1940 at Havana: "It was so intangible, and yet it struck me like a thunderclap ... It disarmed all images, all metaphors, and cut through the whole skein of species and phantasms with which we naturally do our thinking ... [It was] far above and beyond the level of any desire or any appetite ... It left a breathless joy and a clean peace and happiness that stayed for hours, and it was something I have never forgotten...
Adama House: John D. White, Jr. '50, Clyde Eagleton, Jr. '48, George 1. Harris '50, John K. Lally '49, Richard Hatton '49, Merton M. Madway '48, M. Jerome Franklin '49, William S. Campbell...
...nominated by petition are: Jay Fialkow, Stanley J. Friedman, J. Anthony Lewis, Merton L. Madway, Alfred Miller, David B. Reed, and Daniel J. Silver...