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First lines: "Nightclubs have caused a delay in the publication of a monk's book. It sounds ironic, and it is." Citation: Press Pittsburg, PA (24 April 1949). Grace Proven.

First lines: "To judge by what is stocked in many bookstores, the religion books category grows ever broader,"... Citation: Patriot Ledger [Quincy MA] (23 March 1996): 46. Gustav Niebuhr.

First lines: "There are some outstanding fiction and non-fiction books now on display at the Middlesex Drug store"... Citation: Stoneham Independent [Stoneham, Mass] (3 March 1949).

First lines: "The Waters of Siloe by Thomas Merton, renowned Trappist monk-author, has been chosen as the October"... Citation: Catholic Messenger (29 September 1949).

First lines: "The newly-published book of letters documents the relationship between Thomas Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer. The"... Citation: Lexington Herald Leader (January 3, 2015) [online]. [Accessed January 5, 2015].

First lines: "Pisana w latach II wojny swiatowej autobiografia Tomasza Mertona,"... Citation: W Drodze 5.369 (2004): 76-81.

First lines: "I didn't know where to begin delving into this generous compendium but thought the essay "Poetry,"... Citation: Contact 2 (February 1987): 42-43. Kirby Congdon.

First lines: "At the last judgment it will not be embarrassing to have our sins made public, nor will the"... Citation: Integrity 3 (october 1948): 43-44. Carol Jackson.

First lines: "Belated though I am, since all the"... Citation: The Public Spirit (January 10, 1957).

First lines: "The Sign of Jonas is the story of a priestly paradox--the candid self-assessment of a man who left"... Citation: News [Newburyport, Mass] (5 March 1953). Jim Stack.

First lines: "The many readers of Thomas Merton's "the Seven Storey Mountain," a poetic account of a young man's"... Citation: Post Dispatch St. Louis, MO (28 May 1953). Dorothy Garesche Holland.

First lines: "This small and beautifully printed collection of devotional poems by Thomas Merton, the young"... Citation: Post-Dispatch St Louis Mo (1 February 1950). Joseph J. Firebaugh.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's autobiography, "The Seven Story Mountain," best seller, has been translated into"... Citation: Press Cleveland OH (8 January 1950).

First lines: "In his autobiography, the Dalai Lama, the resounding contemporary voice of Buddhism,"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 20:4 (Fall 1995): 25-26.

First lines: "The splendid thing about Thomas Merton's monastic writings is the transparence with which the"... Citation: Worship 31 (May 1957): 369-370. Hilary Thimmesh OSB.

First lines: "When Thomas Merton entered a"... Citation: The Faith (February 1967): 292. (Reproduced from Our Sunday Visitor.).

First lines: "Thomas Merton's new book of poems is dull, daunted and reminiscent of Eliot. These three qualities"... Citation: Commonweal 66 (5 July 1957): 357-358. John Logan.

First lines: "Owen Merton, the father of the author of this unusual autobiography,"... Citation: The Spectator 6318 (July 29, 1949): 148.

First lines: "The autobiography of Thomas Merton, a mundane, young intellectual who after fully immersing himself"... Citation: Phylon 10.2 (2nd Qtr 1949): 174-175. V.L. Jones.

First lines: "Harcourt, Brace & Co. announces that another new printing of 25,000 copies of "The Seven Storey"... Citation: News Detroit, MI (27 February 1949).

First lines: "Have you ever wanted to look into an author's mind and see what the thoughts were behind his"... Citation: Gazette Little Rock Ark (15 February 1953). R.P. Nestlebush.

First lines: "Those who identify with Thomas Merton's deep affection for the natural world have waited long for a"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 28:2 (Summer 2003): 33-34.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's "The Seven Storey Mountain" is remarkable, among other things, for its awareness, as"... Citation: Journal Providence RI (18 September 1949).

First lines: "These letters were exchanged when Merton was coming to the end of his career and Ruether was"... Citation: Christian Century 112.29 (18 October 1995): 970-971.

First lines: "At Home in the World is the collection of letters between Rosemary Radford Ruether and Thomas Merton"... Citation: Daughters of Sarah 21 (Fall 1995): 72-73. Freda Behm.

First lines: "Reading these two boooks in the space of a few days is like listening in on a conversation between"... Citation: Topeka Capital-Journal (16 April 1989): 7G.

First lines: "There is so much of good in "The Ascent to Truth" that I am reluctant to set down my opinion that it"... Citation: Ensign Ottawa Ont. (3 November 1951). J.G. Shaw. Copy of 9a.

First lines: "There is so much of good in "The Ascent to Truth" that I am reluctant to set down my opinion that it"... Citation: Ensign Ottawa Ont. (3 November 1951). J.G. Shaw. Copy on 10b.

First lines: "The scene was Thailand's capital of Bangkok. The date was December 10, 1968. The occasion was a"... Citation: Pittsburgh Catholic (24 August 1973). Fr. Joseph Gallagher.

First lines: "Thomas Merton was deeply concerned with Oriental spirituality and mysticism, particularly in the"... Citation: Horizons 1 (Fall 1974): 149. Frederick J. Kelly SJ.

First lines: "What may one look forward to in this beautiful and latest Merton volume? Insight, of course: "For"... Citation: Worship 48 (April 1974): 251-254. Jane Marie Richardson SL.

First lines: "To a culture which knew nothing about it, Thomas Merton reluctantly came to realize that in order to"... Citation: Sewanee Review 81.4 (Autumn 1973): 845-847. James York Glimm.

First lines: "'The only thing that can save the world from complete moral collapse is a spiritual revolution.'”… Citation: Star Toronto, Canada (29 September 1951).

First lines: "A book truly in the noble tradition of St. John of the Cross. Its sublime concepts are conveyed in"... Citation: Pilot Boston Mass (16 February 1952).

First lines: "Thomas Merton is a young Trappist monk in the monastery of Our Lady of Gethsemani, Kentucky. This"... Citation: Books on Trial 7 (July-august 1948): 63. Sister M. Madeleva CSC.

First lines: "This autobiography of an artist's son who, at 26, became a Trappist monk is unusual, moving--and"... Citation: News Newark NJ (2 January 1949). Elizabeth McFadden.

First lines: "Dialogues with Silence: Prayers & Drawings, edited by Jonathan Montaldo, opens wise the door to new"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 26:4 (Winter 2001): 23-24.

First lines: "'Out here in the woods,' he wrote, 'I can think of nothing except God, and it is not so much that I"... Citation: National Catholic Reporter 33.5 (22 November 1996): 17. John Dear.

First lines: "Monks Pond is no longer Thomas Merton's little magazine filled with a series of graphic and poetic"... Citation: Courier Journal [Louisville] (22 July 1989): A13. David Kocka.

First lines: "While most of us are at least remotely acquainted with the monks of the Cistercian Order of the"... Citation: Chr Sc Monitor (29 October 1948).Francis J. Ulrich.

First lines: "From the pen of one world's great theological scholars emerges a thoroughly analytical, sometimes"... Citation: Fresno Bee (21 May 1967). Eddie Lopez.

First lines: "It comes as a surprise to discover that in the Orthodox Church only three saints are called"... Citation: Sojourners 29.6 (November-December 2000): 30-63. Jim Forest.

First lines: "Most appropriate for reading at this season is "No Man Is An Island," a new inspirational book by"... Citation: Courier-Journal [Louisville KY] (10 April 1955). William Habich.

First lines: "Now published for the first time, this novel was written in the summer of 1941, shortly before"... Citation: Patriot News PA (3 August 1967). John Leonard. Also see 05, 15, 19, 21a, 21b, and 23b.

First lines: "Occasionally a book slips by one with insufficient attention when it first appears. Such is Thomas"... Citation: Spokesman Review Spokane, Wash (17 July 1949).

First lines: "The most striking feature of Thomas Merton's Cold War Letters - especially to a historian - is the"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 32:4 (Winter 2007): 25-26.

First lines: "'The Living Bread,' title of the latest book by Thomas Merton, refers to the Living Christ, Who"... Citation: Des Moines Sunday Register (25 March 1956): 19D. Lucy Ryan.

First lines: "Published posthumously following his death in June 2005, Basil Pennington's anthology"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 30:4 (Winter 2005): 33-34.

First lines: "The latest of the impressively accumulating works of Thomas Merton is a brief, profound and"... Citation: New York Times (11 March 1956). Richard Sullivan.

First lines: "The Philosophical and psychological reasons for rejecting the idea that an individual reader may"... Citation: Hudson Review 17 (Spring 1964): 149-157. Hayden Carruth.

First lines: "This is the journal of six years of Thomas Merton's life as a monk in the Trappist monastery of Our"... Citation: Times Herald Dallas, TX (8 February 1953). John H. Griffin.

First lines: "In a conference on St. Anselm of Canterbury given to novices at the Abbey of Gethsemani,"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 43.4 (Winter 2018): 32-33.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, the complete bohemian who became a Trappist monk at 26, has carried on an astringent"... Citation: Time Magazine 85 (5 February 1965): 116. 2 copies, one on original wax paper.

First lines: "The air is full of strident sounds, noises which assail the ear with terrible dissonance, leaving no"... Citation: Catholic Record NY (19 Oct. 1946). Blanche Mary Kelly.

First lines: "Trappist Father Thomas Merton, more than 20 years after his death, is still the darling of the"... Citation: Criterion (22 December 1989): 38. Charles Dollen.

First lines: "The publication of Thomas Merton’s twelve early essays, previously dispersed among issues"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 40.3 (Fall 2015): 25-27.

First lines: "The publication of poetry in translation"... Citation: Times Literary Supplement [London] 2913 (Dec. 27 1957): 789.

First lines: "This curious book, made up of selections from a journal kept between 1939 and 1941 by Thomas Merton,"... Citation: Journal Providence RI (29 March 1959). William P. Kelley.

First lines: "Before lunch on December 10, 1968, Father Louis"... Citation: Star [Washington, DC] (July 5, 1973).

First lines: "As the glue dried out and crumbled, and the pages seperated from the binding of my 1973"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 24:4 (Winter 1999): 26-28.

First lines: "As the glue dried out and crumbled, and the pages seperated from the binding of my 1973"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 24:4 (Winter 1999): 26-28.

First lines: "The publication of Witness to Freedom, edited by William H. Shannon, is a noteworthy event, not only because"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 20.1 (Winter 1995): 23-25.

First lines: "The publication of Witness to Freedom, edited by William H. Shannon, is a noteworthy event"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 20:1 (Winter 1995): 23-25.

First lines: "I entered the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance in July of 1994, after having served for"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 35:4 (Winter 2010): 37-39.

First lines: "This book is worth waiting fifty years for: as we are privileged with Scripture to live in"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 30:2 (Summer 2005): 29-30.

First lines: "Thomas Merton has been a part of my life since the early fifties, when I read Seeds of Contemplation"... Citation: World Literature Today 63.2 (Spring 1989): 311-312. Marvin J. LaHood.

First lines: "I have always numbered The Sign of Jonas among my favorite Merton Books. It is a collection of"... Citation: Review and Expositor 87.2 (Spring 1990): 357-358. Billy Jim Leonard.

First lines: "Cistercian Publications has now issued the seventh volume of Thomas Merton’s class notes,"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 40.4 (Winter 2015): 41-43.

First lines: "Since earnestly practicing the Buddhist doctrine of emptiness, wrote the Tang poet Po-Chu-I"... Citation: Shambhala Sun 15.4 (March 2007): 97-100.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's early novel, "My Argument With the Gestapo," now published for the first time,"... Citation: Star Washington DC (24 August 1969). Peter T. Rohrbach.

First lines: "Merton books continue to be published with amazing frequency. This is a most valuable one." Citation: Merton Seasonal 17:4 (Fall 1992): 22-24.

First lines: "After reading Edward Rice's portrait of Thomas Merton, The Man in the Sycamore Tree, one might get"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 28:3 (Winter 2003): 25-27.

First lines: "The first volume of the private journals of Thomas Merton begins with their 24-year-old author"... Citation: Plain Dealer [Cleveland] (3 September 1995): 12-J. Robert Finn.

First lines: "There are some readers who attribute the wide interest in Thomas Merton's books, "The Seven Storey"... Citation: Patriot Ledger (25 October 1949).

First lines: "This is the autobiography of a cosmopolite and a true child of our century who, after tasting the"... Citation: Journal Milwaukee Wis (14 November 1948).

First lines: "Thomas Merton's present book is a comprehensive record of his conversion to Catholicism. The Poems,"... Citation: Poetry 69 (December 1946): 165-168. John Nerber.

First lines: "During the 2004 presidential debates, both President George Bush and Senator John Kerry"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 29:4 (Winter 2004): 27-30 [online].

First lines: "Basically, A Thomas Merton Reader is a literary and philosophical journey that seeks to carry its"... Citation: Book blurb from dust jacket.

First lines: "A decade ago the phenomenal success of "the Seven Storey Mountain" catapulted Thomas Merton, a"... Citation: Tribune Chicago, IL (1 February 1959). John A. O'Brien.

First lines: "Figures for an Apocalypse comprises approximately forty poems (counting the initial eight part"... Citation: Spirit 15 (July 1948): 88-90.

First lines: "On finishing the first volume of Thomas Merton's collected letters (three more are projected), one"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 10:3 (Summer 1985): 14-15 [online]. [Accessed March 7th, 2017].

First lines: "Thomas Merton is more than an American: he is a monk, and one who has been brought to the Faith"... Citation: Catholic World 170 (October 1949): 71-71.

First lines: "Thomas Merton is an American Trappist monk, and Elected Silence is the English edition of his autobiography." Citation: Tablet [London] (6 August 1949): 8.

First lines: "When Thomas Merton wrote -- with a beautifully eloquent but restrained cadence many people somehow"... Citation: Middletown Press [Connecticut] (12 October 1989): 10. Kathy O'Connell.

First lines: "In 1948 Thomas Merton, in a letter to his friend Bob Lax, said: I wrote to Clare"... Citation: Doctrine and Life 41.5 (May/June 1991): 250-254.

First lines: "It was 15 years ago that New Directions published a slim volume called "Thirty Poems"--Thomas"... Citation: Courier Journal [Louisville] (31 January 1960). William Habich.

First lines: "It was 15 years ago that new Directions published a slim volume called "Thirty Poems" --Thomas"... Citation: Courier-Journal [Louisville] (31 January 1960): William Habich.

First lines: "'Is it really a good idea to know this person so well?' I mused upon finishing the third of seven"... Citation: America 175.14 (9 November 1996): 24-26. Bonnie Thurston.

First lines: "This third and so far most evocative of Thomas Merton's personal journals spans the years from July"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 33.2 (1998): 236-237. Beverly Aitken.

First lines: "A Cistercian monk and author of the bestselling The Seven Storey Mountain, Merton records in his"... Citation: Publishers Weekly 243.20 (13 May 1996): 68. John Dear.

First lines: "In 1953 the author of "Disputed Questions" wrote on the closing pages of his fourth book, "The Sign"... Citation: Saturday Review [NY City] 43 (24 September 1960). William Michelfelder.

First lines: "On the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Pope Pius XII, in May, 1953,"... Citation: Globe Boston Mass (11 July 1954). LaFayette L. Marchand. 2 copies, one on original newsprint.

First lines: "Many years ago America magazine began to publish my poetry because of the interest of the poetry editor at"... Citation: National Catholic Reporter 43.31 (6 July 2007): 19.

First lines: "I am a recent convert to the monastic way of life, having professed in 1991." Citation: Merton Seasonal 17:4 (Fall 1992): 24-25.

First lines: "What better time to read Thomas Merton’s newly available book on desert spirituality than"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 45.2 (Summer 2020): 25-27.

First lines: "If this was the Christmas you were going to give Grandma one of those new Catholic prayerbooks"... Citation: Catholic Sentinel, Portland Oregon (19 December 1969. Ed O'Meara.

First lines: "Buried in the middle of this thick book - a 1,048-page potpourri if themes,"... Citation: Los Angeles Times (December 14, 1980).

First lines: "Thomas Merton, a young religious of the austere Cistercian order, commonly known as the Trappists"... Citation: Post-Dispatch St. Louis MO (31 October 1948). John S. Black.

First lines: "Three new books in the past four years suggest a revival of interest in an all-American trio"... Citation: National Catholic Reporter 40.43 (8 October 2004): 10A-11A.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's "Journal" was written in the summer"... Citation: Austin American-Statesman (July 27, 1969).