Word: mertonism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...When Merton entered the monastery 43 years ago, Roman Catholic religious orders were faithful to the rigorous disciplines of old. A little-known New York writer and teacher whose life had been rakish though not quite dissolute, he converted from irreligion to Catholicism at 23 and stunned friends three years later by joining the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, commonly known as Trappists. The monks of Gethsemani lived on prayer, hard manual toil, vegetables and little else. Under the rule of silence, all conversation was forbidden...
...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...