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First lines: "A collection of essays by the late philosopher-monk"... Citation: The Evening Post [Charleston, SC.] (August 31, 1979).

First lines: "Thomas Merton has a great deal to offer men and women of every faith. Those who have read his"... Citation: Spokesman Review Spokane, Wash. (15 February 1953)Harrison Smith. Also see 60a, 06c, 07c, 09b, 09c, 10b, 12d, 13a, 14c.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, the famed Cistercian monk of the Gethsemani, Kentucky monastery, spent two weeks in"... Citation: Sunday Independent [Ashland KY] (14 May 1989): 42. Thelma Scott Kiser.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's popularity rests chiefly on his autobiography. "The Seven Storey Mountain" is the"... Citation: Leviathan (April 1978): 14-15. Alan Prendergast.

First lines: "Persons under the misapprehension that monks are "pious athletes" competing to see who can say the"... Citation: Times Indianapolis IN (24 September 1949). George V. Burns. Also see 14b.

First lines: "Survival or Prophecy? Is the right book for Merton devotees seeking greater insight into Merton's thoughts about"... Citation: America 187.10 (7 October 2002): 21-22.

First lines: "When Thomas Merton wrote Sign of Jonas"... Citation: The Houston Chronicle (December 23, 1956).

First lines: "One of Merton's last projects was to launch a literary quarterly in 1968. The facsimile of its four"... Citation: American Literature 61.4 (December 1989): 731.

First lines: "Thomas Merton entered the Trappist monastery at Gethsemani, Kentucky, in 1941 and spent the rest of"... Citation: Sunday Independent [Ashland KY] (15 October 1989). Thelma Scott Kiser.

First lines: "In 1967, when Thomas Merton announced Monks Pond as a little magazine with a planned lifetime of"... Citation: Georgia Review 45.1 (Spring 1991): 177-186. Madeline DeFrees.

First lines: "Father Thomas Merton has written"...

First lines: "Thomas Merton has a great deal to offer men and women of every faith. Those who have read his"... Citation: Roanoke Times (8 February 1953). Harrison Smith. Also see 06a, 06c, 07c, 09c, 10b, 12d, 13a, 14c, 15a.

First lines: "Late in 1968, thanks to an invitation to speak at a conference on monasticism in Bangkok, Thailand,"... Citation: America 129 (4 August 1973): 69. Chalmers McCormick.

First lines: "In 1968 the vibrant life of Thomas Merton -- Trappist monk, gifted spiritual teacher, writer, artist"... Citation: Lexington Herald-Leader (14 April 1996): D4. Kathy Brown.

First lines: "Robert Lowell, whose second book of verse, "Lord Weary's Castle" has just been published is a young,"... Citation: Commonweal 45 (27 December 1946): 283. Anne Fremantle.

First lines: "More glimpses at Thomas Merton, the man and ideas,"...

First lines: "Harcourt, Brace will publish a new Thomas Merton book, "The Ascent to Truth," described as "heavy"... Citation: Courier Journal (10 July 1951).

First lines: "An acquaintance who happens to be a Jewish psychiatrist mentioned to me recently that he thought"... Citation: Canadian Catholic Review 10.6 (June 1992): 21-22. Ross Labrie.

First lines: "This is an extremely candid record of a spiritual pilgrimage that is still in progress. It is the"... Citation: Sunday Globe Boston, Mass. LaFayette L. Marchand.

First lines: "Is the Christian life of prayer simply an evasion of the problems and anxieties of contemporary"... Citation: Nebraska Register (23 January 1970).

First lines: "Thomas Merton, avant-garde poet and Trappist monk, here ventures upon the field of hagiography, with"... Citation: Journal Providence RI (15 August 1948). J.N.H.

First lines: "This biography of the saintly French Trappistine, from the gifted pen of Thomas Merton, is an"... Citation: Catholic Booklist Rosary College River Forest IL (1949).

First lines: "Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, was a man of letters. He wrote more than 3000 of them. Letters were"... Citation: Houston Chronicle (7 July 1985): 19. Joseph Patrick Kennedy.

First lines: "The 'Waters of Siloe' is a sequel to Mr. Merton's 'The Seven Storey Mountain.' In the first book, he"... Citation: Standard Times New Bedford, MA (1 January 1950). J.H.A.

First lines: "Father Merton has contributed as enlightening and informative book in "The Silent Life." He explains"... Citation: News Charleston SC (24 February 1957). Doris Meadowcroft.

First lines: "'In times like ours," Father Merton writes, "it is more than ever necessary for the individual to"... Citation: Homiletic and Pastoral Review 67 (March 1967):531-532. Joseph Tusiani.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's only existing premonastic work, a novel entitled, My Argument with the Gestapo, has"... Citation: National Catholic Reporter [Kansas City, MO] 6 (1 October 1969): 19. W. Congar Beasley Jr.

First lines: "The other day I received a copy of a well-known portrait of Thomas Merton, taken a few years ago by"... Citation: America 121 (16 August 1969): 102. Philip M. Stark.

First lines: "Now published for the first time, this novel was written in the summer of 1941, shortly before"... Citation: News - American Baltimore, MD. (25 July 1969). Also see 05, 10, 15, 19, 21a, and 23b.

First lines: "This freeform journal kept by Thomas Merton when he was 26, facing his own personal crisis ("trying"... Citation: V Kirkus Bulletin (1 May 1970).

First lines: "This book was written shortly before the author entered the Trappist monastery at Gethesmane,"... Citation: Telegram Portland ME (4 January 1970). Edward Schriver.

First lines: "Written 28 years ago and published only after his death last December, this is the first premonastic"... Citation: Reflector Greenville NC (1 January 1970). P.P.

First lines: "Written 28 years ago and published only after his death last December, this is the first premonastic"... Citation: Times & News Leader San Mateo, CA (25 December 1969). Also see 22a.

First lines: "Elected Silence was an important and interesting book; important because it illustrated the thirst for contemplation"... Citation: Tablet [London] (6 June 1953): 12.

First lines: "Fr. Merton's new book is an explanation, as concise as may be of the Mass viewed in its threefold"... Citation: Month [London] 17 (January 1957): 44-45.

First lines: "Religious contemplation aims at that unimpeded penetration of reality which often so tantalizingly"... Citation: Commonweal 75 (16 March 1962): 650. Leonard F.X. Mayhew.

First lines: "The best wines come from wines that grow on hard and chalky"... Citation: Month [London] 7 (April 1952):242-244.

First lines: "This new book by Thomas Merton is three things in one. It is a general introduction to Christian"... Citation: NY Herald Tribune (23 September 1951). Thomas Sugrue.

First lines: "In this collection of poems the author has revealed more of himself than he did in his other books." Citation: News Birmingham (24 December 1949). Sister Therese, OSB.

First lines: "In this follow-up to his popular autobiography, "the Seven Storey Mountain," the young Trappist monk"... Citation: News Newark NJ (10 April 1949). Elizabeth McFadden.

First lines: "The modern Western mind has very little knowledge of what is meant by the word mysticism, as the"... Citation: Post Dispatch St. Louis Mo (13 January 1952). Rev. Charles D. Kean.

First lines: "In Thomas Merton's best seller, Seven Storey Mountain, the Catholic convert and Trappist monk told"... Citation: Inquirer Philadelphia Pa (21 October 1951). Katherine Dunlap.

First lines: "In two perceptive, quietly stirring books published this week, an old and a young American gave"... Citation: Time Magazine 52.25 (11 October 1948): 87-89.

First lines: "Religious thinkers have been fascinated by the search for perfection and by methods leading to the"... Citation: Liturgical Arts 36 (November 1967): 27-28. Aaron W. Godfrey.

First lines: "In this informative history and interpretation of the "dark side" of Catholic mysticism and"... Citation: Times Hartford Conn. (13 October 1951). E.C.

First lines: "He left San Francisco with an exhilaration that approached ecstasy -- "with Christian mantras and a"... Citation: Time Magazine 102 (6 August 1973): 54.

First lines: "When the astonishing energies of Thomas Merton"...

First lines: "The fallout from the political and social explosions of the 1960s produced hundreds of off-beat"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 14:4 (Fall 1989): 24-26.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, now a Trappist monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky and known as Father Louis,"... Citation: Herald Boston MA (21 September 1949). Claude M. Fuess.

First lines: "In there columns where America has lately aroused interest in the status of Catholic art, drawing"... Citation: America 73 (21 July 1945): 316-318. Sister Julie.

First lines: "Thomas Merton has called this journal of the six years of his life since solemn profession, "the"... Citation: Herald Boston Mass (22 February 1953). George W. Casey.

First lines: "The celebrated dictum about every person having one good book in him is well illustrated in the"... Citation: Chicago Sunday Tribune Book Review (26 March 1950): 3.

First lines: "I echo the author of Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt's enthusiasm for the Intimate Merton." Citation: Pilot [Boston] (11 February 2000): 11. Robert Waldron.

First lines: "Thomas Merton was the quintessential writer of journals. Many readers think those published"... Citation: St. Anthony Messenger 96 (December 1988): 48.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, best known as the author of "The Seven Storey Mountain," is also an excellent poet." Citation: Express San Antonio (27 November 1949).

First lines: "We are gradually but unmistakably moving into a new phase of Merton studies." Citation: Merton Seasonal 9:2 (Summer 1984): 14-15 [online]. [Accessed March 8th, 2017].

First lines: "During Holy Week you may wish to turn to special reading. The following list is compiled to suit a"... Citation: Press Cleveland OH (4 April 1950).

First lines: "This is a much enlarged and completely revised version of one of Father Merton's most widely read"... Citation: Book Blurb from dust jacket.

First lines: "At first glance, it seems almost a superfluity to review such a well-known book. However, the"... Citation: Review for Religious (Summer 1972): 889. Sr. M. Romanus Penrose.

First lines: "This new edition is a much-enlarged and revised version"... Citation: Jeffersonian (May 18, 1972).

First lines: "It is an unfortunate fact that too many people regard the lay state as somehow inferior to the"... Citation: Catholic Times Columbus, OH (30 August 1963).Frederick J. Dushel.

First lines: "The purist, one supposes is not particularly happy with the state of theology today, however much he"... Citation: Long Island Catholic (11 May 1967). James G. Murray. Also see 04b.

First lines: "During 1988-89, innumerable twentieth anniversary events commemorated the death of Thomas Merton"... Citation: Mid-Stream: An Ecumenical Journal 30.1 (January 1991): 35-39. George Kilcourse.

First lines: "During 1988-89, innumerable twentieth anniversary events commemorated the death of Thomas Merton"... Citation: Mid-Stream 30.1 (January 1991): 35-49. George Kilcourse.

First lines: "During 1988-89, innumerable twentieth anniversary events commemorated the death of Thomas Merton"... Citation: Mid-Stream 30.1 (January 1991): 35-49. George Kilcourse.

First lines: "During 1988-89, innumerable twentieth anniversary events commemorated the death of Thomas Merton"... Citation: Mid-Stream 30.1 (January 1991): 35-49. George Kilcourse.

First lines: "During 1988-89, innumerable twentieth anniversary events commemorated the death of Thomas Merton"... Citation: Mid-Stream: An Ecumenical Journal 30.1 (January 1991): 35-49. George Kilcourse.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, the young Trappist monk whose "The Seven Storey Mountain" is a sensational best"... Citation: Post Washington DC (22 May 1949).

First lines: "In a "Message to Poets" which Thomas Merton sent to a group of writers that met in Mexico City in"... Citation: Renascence 17 (Fall 1964): 51-53. Sister M. Therese Lentfoehr, SDS.

First lines: "None of Thomas Merton's subsequent writings have had the same wide reader appeal as The Seven Storey"... Citation: Virginia Kirkus Bulletin (15 February 1955).

First lines: "'Leaving system to others, and renouncing the attempt to lay down universal principles which have"... Citation: Herald Boston MA (10 April 1955). H.T. Handley.

First lines: "'Every other man is a piece of myself,' says Thomas Merton in the prologue to this book, 'for I am a"... Citation: Ave Maria 81 (30 April 1955): 23. R.L. Langlois.

First lines: "Let not the prospective reader be discouraged by another title drawn from the writings of John Donne"... Citation: Catholic World (June 1955) [:234. Edward H. Peter CSP]. Incomplete copy.

First lines: "St. Thomas in his exposition De Trinitate quotes Peter Lombard to the effect that theological"... Citation: Worship 29 (September 1955): 495-497. Gerard S. Sloyan.

First lines: "A book of meditations "on certain aspects of the spiritual life"--Love Can Be Kept Only by Being"... Citation: Retail Bookseller (March 1955).

First lines: "Thomas Merton is Trappist Father Louis. When he became a convert he did not use half-measures. He"... Citation: Catholic Universe Bulletin (29 April 1955).

First lines: "The most useful book since Seven Storey Mountain, for the general reader. Such topics as silence,"... Citation: Catholic Messenger Davenport IA (26 February 1956).

First lines: "This book, says this author (Father Louis of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance) is"... Citation: Plain Dealer Cleveland OH (4 March 1958).

First lines: "By his own statement this new book of Thomas Merton's is not a continuation of Seeds of"... Citation: Sign 34 (May 1955): 69. Fortunata Caliri.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's series of meditations on the basic truths of man's spiritual life, "No Man is an"... Citation: Globe Sioux City Iowa (14 February 1957).

First lines: "Thomas Merton, who is Father Louis of the Trappist Oder of Gethsemani, writes a sequel to his "Seeds"... Citation: Chronicle San Francisco CA (29 May 1955). J.V.

First lines: "The most useful book since Seven Storey Mountain, for the general reader. Such topics as silence,"... Citation: America (18 February 1956).

First lines: "This Trappist monk has built up an impressive audience during the last 10 years. The book develops"... Citation: Post Boston MA (27 March 1955).

First lines: "Thomas Merton successfully lived an apparent paradox: a contemplative monk who wrote books, poems"... Citation: Publishers Weekly 236.1 (17 July 1989): 43. Genevieve Stuttaford.

First lines: "In this companion volume to the author's autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain," Thomas Merton"... Citation: Reporter Berlin NH (22 February 1949).

First lines: "'Keep jiving,' Thomas Merton wrote at the end of a letter sent in 1967, the year before he died --"... Citation: Washington Post Book World (3 September 1989): 13.

First lines: "Seven Story Mountain is an outstanding autobiography of Thomas Merton, who entered a Trappist"... Citation: Facts Redland, CA (4 February 1949).

First lines: "The author believes the spiritual life is the life of man's real self and this book is written to"... Citation: News Detroit MI (8 May 1955).

First lines: "The autobiography of a young man who led a full and worldly life, and then, at the age of"... Citation: Reporter Berlin NH (17 February 1949).

First lines: "'All innocence is a matter of belief,' Thomas Merton said. 'For the poet there is not magic. There"... Citation: New York Times Book Review 87 (23 May 1982): 15. D.J.R. Bruckner.

First lines: "The monks of the desert, whose wisdom is distilled here by the well-known Trappist monk Thomas"... Citation: Literary Review [London] (September 1988): 52-53.

First lines: "If there must come "art from the pews," and there must, we hope that it is not for the reasons"... Citation: America (6 November 1948). Fred Digby.

First lines: "A prophet is a person of neither vague ideas nor ready-made solutions. He or she is a person who, by"... Citation: Sojourners 9.5 (May 1980): 28-30. Conrad C. Hoover.

First lines: "A prophet is a person of neither vague ideas nor ready-made solutions. He or she is a person who, by"... Citation: Sojourners 9.5 (May 1980): 28-30. Conrad C. Hoover.

First lines: "A prophet is a person of neither vague ideas nor ready-made solutions. He or she is a person who, by"... Citation: Sojourners 9.5 (May 1980): 28-30. Conrad C. Hoover.

First lines: "Przez cale swoje zycie Thomas Merton zapisywal swoje dzieje,"... Citation: Topos12.1-2 (2004): 297-299.

First lines: "Merton, who wrote "the Seven Storey Mountain," maintains that the monastic life is experiencing its"... Citation: Citizen Hollywood CA (4 January 1957). Patty Scratch.

First lines: "Thomas Merton has a great deal to offer men and women of every faith. Thos who have read his"... Citation: Toledo Blade (8 February 1953). Harrison Smith. Also see 06c, 07c, 09b, 09c, 10b, 12d, 13a, 14c, 15a.

First lines: "In the tradition of personal notes and meditations in which Thomas Merton set himself in an earlier"... Citation: Books on Trial 13.6 (April 1955): 311-312. Therese Lentfoehr SDS.

First lines: "To many Fr. Thomas Merton was an irreplacable man." Citation: The Tablet 223.6748 (20 September 1969): 928.