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

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: "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: "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: "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: "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: "Thomas Merton, whose Seven Storey Mountain currently leads the nonfiction best-seller list, has"... Citation: Buffalo Courier-Express (2 October 1949). John H. Smith.

First lines: "As he viewed the stone Buddhas of Polonnaru in Ceylon a week before his accidental death in Bangkok"... Citation: Journal of Religion 55 (1975): 477-78. Kevin Lewis.

First lines: "In a companion volume to The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton, poet and young Trappist monk,"... Citation: New York Herald-Tribune (2 August 1949).

First lines: "Thomas Merton, Catholic Jesuit monk who might be defined as being within the liberal persuasion, has"... Citation: Advocate Baton Rouge LA (30 July 1967). John Pyros.

First lines: "In Kentucky poetry circles "The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton" is certainly an exciting"... Citation: Ashland Daily Independent (25 December 1977). Thelma Scott Kiser.

First lines: "In 1968 Thomas Merton travelled to Bangkok to address a conference of Asian monastic orders. He had"... Citation: Vajra Bodhi Sea Cold Mountain Monastery Sino-American Buddhist Association San Francisco 42 (October 1973).

First lines: "Thomas Merton didn't fit anyone's image of a contemplative monk. While most living the monastic"... Citation: Catholic Week [Mobile AL] 55.36 (8 September 1989): Robert Grip.

First lines: "In his Introduction to Thomas Merton's literary essays, Brother Patrick Hard informs us that since"... Citation: Italo Americano [Sun Valley CA] (3 March 1987): 16. Kenneth Scambray.

First lines: "'A hundred years ago America began to discover the Orient and its philosophical tradition...the"... Citation: Register New Haven, Conn (17 May 1967). J.W. Also see 07.

First lines: "'A hundred years ago America began to discover the Orient and its philosophical tradition...the"... Citation: Register New Haven, Conn (17 May 1967). J.W. Also see 06.

First lines: "Thomas Merton published so many items drawn from his journals and so many Mertonophiles are laboring"... Citation: Review & Expositor [Louisville] 94 (Spring 1997): 321-322. Glenn Hinson.

First lines: "Have you ever noticed what a Trappist monk thinks in the cloisters? He is under a vow to silence so"... Citation: Chehalis Advocate [Chehalis, Wash] (1 October 1953). Flaval Pearson.

First lines: "This might well be sub-dubbed "The Anti-Organization Man," but for the readers who might wonder what"...

First lines: "If you read this book just to find out whether or not Thomas Merton really wished to leave his"... Citation: St. Louis Post Dispatch (20 November 1973). Harry J. Cargas.

First lines: "In 1968 the Poet and Trappist monk, Thomas Merton set out on a journey to Asia, partly to attend"... Citation: Pacific Affairs 46.4 (Winter 1973-1974): 570. George Woodcock.

First lines: "These three new Merton books arrived in the tenth anniversary year of his death, 1978. The first of"... Citation: Spirituality Today 31.3 (September 1979): 270-273. Daniel J. O'Hanlon SJ.

First lines: "In one of the many books (Contemplation in a World of Action) that appeared after his bizarre death"... Citation: Malahat Review [Victoria, British Columbia] 46 (April 1978): 148-151. George Woodcock.

First lines: "Overlooking a handful of poems which have appeared in scattered publications, this is Thomas Merton'"... Citation: Catholic Worker 30 (May 1964): 7. James H. Forest.

First lines: "The correspondence between Thomas Merton and Dr. D.T. Suzuki was a noteworthy event of itself in the"... Citation: North American Board for East-West Dialogue 34 (January 1989): 12. Helen Barrow OSB.

First lines: "During her lifetime complete obscurity cloaked the activities of Mother Berchmans; and, but for her"... Citation: Review for Religious 7.6 (November 1948): 324-325. T.L. McNair.

First lines: "At the time of Thomas Merton's death in 1968 it was said that America lost one of her most"... Citation: American Ecclesiastical Review 165 (November 1971): 208-209. John J. Higgins SJ.

First lines: "The excitement attending the publication of this second volume of Thomas Merton's poetry, which"... Citation: Spirit 13 (November 1946). 150-153. Francis Xavier Connolly.

First lines: "Thomas Merton died in 1968. Love and Living was published in 1979. Considering how prolific a writer"... Citation: Horizons 8 (Spring 1981): 169-170. Mark Quinn.

First lines: "Anyone with previous experience of Thomas Merton's work in SPIRIT, The New Yorker or View, will"... Citation: Spirit 12 (March 1945): 24-26.Paul Morten.

First lines: "Readers of Thomas Merton will welcome this latest addition to his books, the final one to come from"... Citation: Living Church 192 (28 October 1973): 18. Enrico S. Molnar OAR.

First lines: "Overlooking a handful of poems which have appeared in scattered publications, this is Thomas Merton"... Citation: Catholic Worker 30 (May 1964): 7. James H. Forest.

First lines: "About ten years ago Thomas Merton with a companion communist-minded student signed up for a course"... Citation: Thomist 12 (January 1949): 101-106. Sister M. Madelveva, CSC.

First lines: "In the event that readers have wondered what Thomas Merton did with his time at his Kentucky"... Citation: Catholic Historical Review 81.1 (January 1995): 123-124. Clyde F. Crews.

First lines: "This is indeed an extraordinary book, even by so unusual a monk as Thomas Merton, whom we know"... Citation: Renascence 14 (Winter 1962): 102-105. Sister Therese.

First lines: "This fine book is the journal of Thomas Merton's trip to the East in the fall of 1968. Merton died"... Citation: Catholic Worker 39 (October-November 1973): 5. Sister Donald Corcoran OSB.

First lines: "The recent numerous reprints and translations of articles by Thomas Merton in such foreign"... Citation: Renascence 15 (Fall 1962): 46-50. Therese Lentfoehr SDS.

First lines: "A friend of mine, having recently seen the film version of Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, asked me to do"... Citation: Catholic Worker 42 (March-April 1976): 6-7. Richard [Columban] Weber OCSO.

First lines: "The content of this new book by the distinguished Christian thinker and Cistercian monk Thomas"... Citation: American Ecclesiastical Review 148 (January 1963): 65-66. Claude Charles H. Williamson.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's diary-record of his trip"... Citation: Courier Journal & Times [KY].

First lines: "John Howard Griffin, long-time friend and now official biographer of the late Thomas Merton,"... Citation: Courier Journal & Louisville Times [KY]. P. Shirley Williams.

First lines: "It was Miss Evelyn Underhill who said, "The greatest mystics have not been heretics but Catholic"... Citation: Commonweal 55 (26 October 1951): 72-73. John C.H. Wu.

First lines: "In these days of meat and butter at a dollar a pound, it is wonderful indeed that for $2.50 a throw"... Citation: Commonweal 48 (13 August 1948): 430-431. Anne Fremantly.

First lines: "It was almost inevitable that The Seven Storey Mountain would have a sequel. Thousands of those who"... Citation: Commonweal 51 (14 October 1949): 19. Florence D. Cohalan.

First lines: "In Bernanos' "Diary of a Country Priest," when a renegade cleric who has been asked by the dying"... Citation: Commonweal 49 (15 October 1948): 16. George Miles.

First lines: "If publishers have any idea about what America wants to read--and if they didn't they would be out"... Citation: Chicago Sun (1949). Emmett Dedmon.

First lines: "The fireflies still flickered in the night like stars reflected in a wind-blown lake; a few tireless"... Citation: New York Herald-Tribune (16 September 1949). Lewis Gannett.

First lines: "Here is Thomas Merton, who renounced the world in 1941 and has since addressed a number of books to"... Citation: New York Herald Tribune (6 February 1953). John K. Hutchens.

First lines: "Experiences of a young man of the world, a poet, a one-time Communist, who entered a Trappist"... Citation: News San Francisco CA (22 October 1948).

First lines: "In good time for Lenten spiritual reading comes Thomas Merton's newest book, 'The Living Bread'"... Citation: Catholic Standard & Times Philadelphia PA. (2 March 1956). D. Bernard Theall, OSB.

First lines: "The autobiography of Thomas Merton, a mundane, young intellectual who after fully immersing himself"... Citation: Advance Burlingame, CA (24 November 1949). Marguerite Hartung.

First lines: "A few years before his death in 1968, Thomas Merton was asked by the editor of a publication in"... Citation: Our Sunday Visitor 71 (7 November 1982): 3. Mitch Finley.

First lines: "Lent is a time when we often hunger for a deeper and more separate time of solitude, a time to grow"... Citation: America 176.5. (15 February 1997): 30. Emilie Griffin.

First lines: "Not everyone who read the "Seven Storey Mountain" has had the hardihood to study the books which"... Citation: Herald Boston, MA (11 March 1956). Francis J. Lally.

First lines: "Though the Trappist monk, Robert Merton, died almost a decade ago, his verse is still read, and"... Citation: San Francisco Examiner (22 January 1978).

First lines: "Thomas Merton, monk, writer, and political acivist, was among those interesting figures in the"... Citation: National Review 46.23 (5 December 1994): 80. George Sim Johnston.

First lines: "The author of "The Seven Storey Mountain" explains the meaning and purpose of life in a Trappist"...

First lines: "At the age of 50, 25 years after the period covered by these journals, Thomas Merton called"... Citation: New York Times Book Review (1 October 1995): 33. Alexandra Hall.

First lines: "One senses that Thomas Merton drank deeply from the ancient sources of vision and experience during"... Citation: R. Scott Kennedy.

First lines: "When the Seven Storey Mountain became a best seller, I read it. That many years ago I was just out"... Citation: Priest 23 (May 1967): 401-403. John J. Eckhart.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's latest book is a cheap half guinea's worth, and one of those book the reader will wish to keep close to him." Citation: Tablet [London] (13 December 1958): 10.

First lines: "This is a very short study of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux based on the Papal Encyclical published from the Vatican"... Citation: Tablet [London] (12 February 1955): 12.

First lines: "Spirituality is not merely an aspect of the Christian life; it is the Christian life in response to"... Citation: America 173.14 (4 November 1995): 33-34. Michael Downey.

First lines: "Thomas Merton has disappeared. The ex-Columbia intellectual, the best-seller autobiographer, is no"... Citation: Argonaut San Francisco CA (7 October 1949). Madeleine O'Connor.

First lines: "Few men are better qualified to make such statements, for Mr Giroux is the editor of two of the most"... Citation: Star Washington DC (4 December 1949).

First lines: "Books about and by Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, are on Farrar, Straus & Cudahy's publication"... Citation: New York Times (13 October 1956).

First lines: "Thomas Merton, Trappist monk and author of two books, will have his third brought out by Harcourt,"... Citation: New York Times (8 July 1949).

First lines: "'I am large,' Walt Whitman boasted, 'I contain multitudes." The late Thomas Merton also was large." Citation: Wall Street Journal 65 (4 June 1985): 24. Edmund Fuller.

First lines: "In the world he is known as Thomas Merton, a young poet who writes with lucidity and grace. In"... Citation: News Sentinel Knoxville, TN (21 November 1948). Lucy Templeton.

First lines: "To the Editor:--Last December I read Thomas Merton's Bread in the Wilderness with much interest and"... Citation: Worship (November 1954): 550-551. M. Ohligslager OSB.

First lines: "It is perhaps natural that the sincere, vivid autobiographical writings of the young Trappist monk,"...

First lines: "We will always have need of scholarly commentaries on the psalms, but having mastered them, we can"... Citation: Worship 28 (July 1954): 388-389. Kilian McDonnell, OSB.

First lines: "'The Seven Storey Mountain' (Harcourt. $3) is the autobiography of Thomas Merton. Of English and"... Citation: Michigan Catholic (18 January 1948).

First lines: "Publications by and about Thomas Merton have become nearly an industry in themselves. Farrar,"... Citation: Catholic Historical Review 83.1 (January 1997): 171-173. Clyde F. Crews.

First lines: "Hold on folks, here we go. This first volume of Merton's personal journals is a heavy tome that is"...

First lines: "This is the first of a projected seven-volume series of Merton journals, the ones his literary trust"... Citation: New Dimensions 22.4 (Autumn 1995): 34. Michael Toms.

First lines: "'The Silent Life' is by one who abandoned the fleshpots of Greenwich Village and the intellectual"... Citation: Courier Journal (6 January 1957). William Habich. See 03c.

First lines: "'The Silent Life' is by one who abandoned the fleshpots of Greenwich Village and the intellectual"... Citation: News Journal Pensacola Florida (6 January 1957). William Habich. See 11.

First lines: "Father Louis, now at Gethsemane Abbey, Kentucky, startled the world of books some years back with"... Citation: Pilot Norfolk, VA (29 March 1959). Gabriel Theo. Maioriello.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's latest book is an urgent message to the age. It is revelation in the way that any li"... Citation: Virginia Quarterly Review 44 (Winter 1968): civ-cv.

First lines: "The late Trappist monk, in his last book of poems, offers his apprehensions of the Kentucky woods an"... Citation: Time Magazine 93 (24 January 1969): 72-75.

First lines: "'Thirty Poems' by Thomas Merton previously published are included in this collection. In those poems"... Citation: Times (28 September 1946).

First lines: "From a cell in the Trappist Monastery of Our Lady of Gethsemane in Kentucky comes the frank,"... Citation: Courier-Journal [Louisville, KY] (10 October 1948). Abby Albert.

First lines: "A striking phenomenon in Roman"... Citation: Times Literary Supplement [London] 2910 (Dec. 6 1957): 744.

First lines: "This book, by the noted author of "The Seven Storey Mountain," consists of a series of reflections"... Citation: Tribune Chicago, IL (26 June 1955). John A. O'Brien.

First lines: "It is no accident that there is more bad religious poetry written than bad poetry of any other kind"... Citation: Washington Post (25 December 1977). Josephine Jacobsen.

First lines: "it has been nearly nine years now since Thomas Merton united himself with the Cistercian order and"... Citation: Tennessean Nashville Tenn. (7 October 1951). L.H.

First lines: "Everybody who read Seven Storey Mountain will want to read this book. It covers six years of Thomas"... Citation: Press Cleveland, OH (2 December 1952).

First lines: "Thomas Merton has established himself as the literary voice of Catholic America. Although living as"... Citation: Best Sellers 15 (15 April 1955).: 16. E.A Ryan, SJ.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, or Father M. Louis, OCR as he is now called, needs no introduction to the literary"... Citation: Best Sellers [Scranton PA] 9 (1 October 1949): 98. Rev. Stephen McKenna.

First lines: "We live in a time of interest not only in the field of religious reading generally and of curiosity"... Citation: Best Sellers 11.156 [Scranton Pa] (15 November 1951): 156. D. Bernard Theall, OSB.

First lines: "According to its author this is not for everybody. He writes in the prologue, "If the reader has"... Citation: Times Dispatch Richmond, VA (26 February 1956). Louise C. Frayser.

First lines: "'[C]ontemporary, universal and one hopes, cogent,' are words written by Thomas"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 32:4 (Winter 2007): 27-28.