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...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...
Puritan Love. The Protestant Reformation was responsible for the development of a third Christian attitude toward marriage-companionability. Martin Luther maintained that, in the eyes of God, a monk may be no more holy than a married man. Luther's own marriage, says Bainton, was chiefly to exemplify this teaching. "I am not madly in love," Luther once said, "but I esteem my wife...
...yesterday's symposium, and special entertainments rounded out the non-stop program. Sporadically entertained by the Glee Club and the Band, the 1800 also were serenaded by assorted other musicians including a troop of Scotch bagpipers, an accordion player and an organ grinder with an aging monkey. Bobby, the monk, who winters in the Square, drew plaudits and coin as he entwined his tail around bare ankles...
...wear berets, goatees and green-tinted horn-rimmed glasses, talk about their "interesting new sounds." The high priest is Dizzy, 30, a South Carolina boy whose rapid-fire, scattershot talk has about the same pace-and content-as his music. Whether he, an obscure Manhattan pianist named Thelonius Monk or Saxophonist Charlie ("Yardbird") Parker invented bebop is a matter of learned dispute among beboppers...
Different Burmans had different ideas as to what independence meant : a popular actress advocated high-caliber plays which would reform wayward girls; a monk hoped that Buddhism would flourish. But even with British help, the new state will have a hard time enjoying the blessings of sovereignty. Twice a battleground in World War II, Burma emerged with its oil refineries in ruins, its rice and teak exports paralyzed...