Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seeds of Contemplation (New Directions; $3) is already riding to a whacking success in the high-altitude wake of an earlier book, The Seven Storey Mountain (TIME, Oct. 11), by the same young Trappist monk. Both books are the work of 34-year-old Thomas Merton, who has retired from the world to live under a monastic rule so strict that it forbids even the self-indulgence of talking. Trendspotters have begun to wonder whether some of the U.S. reading public, in its search for peace, subconsciously wishes it could follow...
...Seven Storey Mountain is the best-selling non-fiction book in the country. From the sedate lending libraries of New England to the bustling women's clubs of the West Coast, people are reading and talking about Poet Merton's sensitive, unhappy groping through the litter of modern civilization to find peace at last. Word-of-mouth endorsements are largely responsible for the demand; bookstores are accustomed to coping with those who did not quite catch the title and come in asking for "Seventh Storey Monk" or "Second Storey Mountain." Protestants and Catholics, businessmen and housewives...
...over a course a shade under a mile and a half, dropping 1,800 feet in 1 minute 35 seconds. Steve Knowlton covered a course on the Grossglockner in Austria in June 1945, in 55 seconds for nearly a mile, to win the downhill race conducted by the Tenth Mountain Division...
...announced in October 1947, is the first drug to work against typhoid fever (TIME, July 12), has proved effective against a steadily mounting list of diseases. Like aureomycin, it works against the group of diseases caused by the tiny organisms called rickettsiae, including typhus fever, scrub typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. In a few cases it has worked against primary atypical ("virus") pneumonia...
...True Truth. There has never been much consistency in the surging course of Artist Rivera's life. He was born 62 years ago in the mountain town of Guanajuato, and was involved almost at once in the kind of controversy that has surrounded him ever since. His mother was an ardent Catholic, his father a revolutionary fighter and an atheist. Acting with characteristic dispatch, little Diego decided in favor of atheism. He swears that his family had to leave Guanajuato when he was six because of his piping diatribes against the Church...