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Abbot, the. See James, Dom [Fox]

Abdesalam, Sidi

Absurdity

Actuelles I (Camus)

Addams, Charles

Adler, Renata

Adolfs, R.

Agenda

Agonia (Unamuno)

Airtight Cage, The (Lyford)

Alban, Bro

Alberti, Rafael

Allah

Allchin, Donald

Almad al’, Alawi

Altizer, Thomas J.J.

America article

American Catholicism

Amery, Carl

Anastasius, Fr.

Angela of Foligno

Anti-Christ

“Apologies to an Unbeliever” (Merton)

Apostolic Delegate

Arab refugees

Artaud, Antonin

Ascension Day (1967)

Ash Wednesday (1966)

As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)

Athanasius of Alexandria

Athonite Hesychasm

Atomic physics

“Aubade on a Cloudy Morning” (Merton)

Auden, W. H.

Augustine, Fr.

Auschwitz

Autobiography of Malcolm X

Autobiography (Muir)

Aziz, Abdul

Aztecs

 

Babin’s Options

Bachelard, Gaston

Baez, Joan

Barth, Karl

Bear, The (Faulkner)

Beatles, The

Beckett, Samuel

Bellow, Saul

Benedict, Bro.

Benedict, Ruth

Benet of Canfield

Benzon, Ernst

Berrigan, Dan

Berryman, John

Birthday (Merton’s)

Black Power

“Black Revolution” (Merton)

Bly, Robert

Bohr, Niels

Book of the Green Man, The (Johnson)

Book of Hours

Book of Job

Book of the Poor in Spirit (Tauler)

Boone, Andy

Boone, Gerald

Bouyer, Louis

Bowles, Paul

Bowling, Webb

Browne, Russell

Bubonic Plague

“Buddhism and the Modern World” (Merton)

Buddhist meditation

Buddhist nun burning

Bunting, Basil

Bursitis, (Merton)

Burton [Stone], Naomi

Burtt, E. A.

 

Cables to the Ace (Merton). See “Edifying Cables.”

Callistus, Fr.

Camara, Archbishop Helder

Campbell, Will

Camus, Albert: anti-eschatology of, commitment of, L’État de siège of, on ethic of quantity, L’Homme révolté, of, Renegade of, on revolt and resistance, study of, The Myth of Sisyphus by

“Cancer Blues” (Merton)

Capitulation (Amery)

Caraco, Albert

Cardenal, Ernesto

Carlisle, Olga

Carroll, Joe

Castle (Kafka)

Catholic Aggiornamento

Catholic Church

Catholic Digest

Catholic poetry

“Catholic renewal,”

Catholic Worker

Cecile de Bourbon, Princess

Celan, Paul

Center at Santa Barbara

“Certain Proverbs Arise Out of Drems” (Merton)

Chadwick, Nora

Chaigne, Hervé

Chakravarty, Amiya

Chaque homme dans sa Nuit (Green)

Char, René

Chateaubriand, François Auguste René

Chatham, Monsignor

“Cherokee Park” (Merton)

Chilean Mass, The

China

Chinese cultural revolution

Chow, Napoleon

Christ

Christ of Faith

Christian charisma

Christianity

Christmas (1966)

Chrysogonus [Waddell], Fr.

Church Against Itself, The (Ruether)

Churchill, Winston

Church of the monastery

Church of the monastery altar

Cistercian life

Civil Rights bill (1964)

Civil Rights movement

Clamence, J. B.

Cleaver, Eldridge

Clement, Bro.

Clergy retreat

Collectanea

Columban, Dom

Commonweal

“Communauté, de l’Arche” fast

Compassion

Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (Merton)

Conscience correspondence

Consciousness

Constellations

Contemplative life

Contradictions

Conversion, (Merton)

Cool Millennium, The (Syke)

Corman, Cid

Cornell, Julian

Cornell, Tom

Cosmology

Council Decree on Religious

Courier Journal

Cousins, Norman

Creativity and Tao (Chang Chung-Yuan)

Cross Currents

Cultural revolution (China)

Curns, Eileen

Cuthbert, Bro.

 

Dana, Doris

Daniel, Yuli

Dante

Darío, Ruben

Davenport, Guy

Davis, Fr. Charles

“Day of a Stranger” (Merton)

Death

Decisions

Deer watching

De Gaulle, Charles

Delta Council Speech of (Faulkner)

De Lubac, Henri

Denoncourt, Leo

Derby Day (1967)

Desert Fathers

Desnos, Robert

Detachment

Dialogue on the Soul and Passions (John Solitary)

Discipline

Dishonesty

Distraction

Doherty, Frank C.

Dommergues, Pierre

Donnelly, Sally

Dreams

Dreams (Merton)

Du Bay, William

Duckett, Eleanor

Dumont, P. Charles

Duncan, Robert

Dupont, E. I.

Dylan, Bob

 

“Eastbournc” poem (Montale)

Easter Sunday (1966)

Ecumenical movement

“Edifying Cables” (Merton)

Egyptian monasticism

Eiseley, Loren

Elegies

Eliot, T.S.

“Emergent Plan” (Chakravarty)

English Philosophy Since 1900 (Warnock)

Epstein, Brian

Erotic love

Esctasies

Eshleman, Clayton

ESP

Essays, Speeches and Public Letters (Faulkner)

Essays (Williams)

L’État de siège (Camus)

Eudes, [Bamberger] Fr.

Evans, Illtud

Evolution and Hope (Benzon)

 

Fadiman, Clifton

Faith

Faith and Violence (Merton)

Fall (Camus)

Fasting

Faulkner, William

Ferry, Ping W.H.

Feuillets d’Hypnos (Char)

Finbar, Bro.

“Fire and the Hearth, The” (Faulkner)

Firmament of Time, The

Fitzsimmons, Jim

Flavian, [Burns] Fr.

Flavian’s hermitage

Floersh, Archbishop John

Foi et Violence

Ford Gladys

Ford, Jack

Ford, Josephine

Foretich, Bro. Dunstan

Francis, St.

Frederic, Dom

Freedgood, Anne

Freedgood, Sy

Freedom project (1964)

Frost, Robert

Futility

 

Gabriel, Dom

Gamow, George

Garaudy, R.

Gardiner, Margaret

Garfunkel, Barry

Geist, Peter

General Chapter

Gerdy, Bob

“Gerontion” (Ransom)

Gethsemani community: damage by Dom James to, dream about fire at, reflections on, sad state of

Ghetto rioting

Giles, Bro.

Gillet, Dom Ignace

Ginsberg, Allen

God: Dom James’s image of, gratitude for M. to, hearing, justification doctrine and, light to know, as love, love for, Marxist Catholic dialogue on, Moslem vision of, offering oneself to, revelation of

“God-is-dead” theology

God’s “alien work,”

God’s kingdom

Gonzales, Conchita

Gospel According to St. Matthew, The (film)

Gospel for Atheists (Hromadka)

Goss-Mayr, Hildegard

Gould, A.

Goulet, Denis

Govinda, Laura

Great Society

Green, Julien

Gregorio, Dom

Grenier, Jean

Griffin, Gregory

Griffin, John H.

Grimes, William

Guardini, Romano

Guilt

Gullick, Etta

Gullicks

 

Hamilton, William

Hammer, Carolyn

Hammer, Victor

Handelinan, Dr.

Harper’s

Harvesters, The (Pavese)

Hausherr, Irenée

“Hearing God

Heidbrink, John

Heisenberg, Werner

Helsinki peace conference

Hennacy, Ammon

Hermitage (Flavian’s)

Hermitage (Hilarion’s)

Hermitage (Merton’s): Dom James’, visit to, gratitude for, Mass at, as model to others, prayer in the primitive state of, reflections on life in, vocation through. See also Merton, Thomas, Solitary life

Hermit life

Hernandez, Miguel

Hesse, Hermann

Hesychasm

“Highway 61” (Dylan)

Hilarion, Fr.

Hippie movement

Hiroshima

Holloway, Jim

Holy Week (1967)

“Homage to Mistress Bradstreet” (Berryman)

Homo Militans (Meerloo)

Hoover, J. Edgar

Hopelessness

Hromadka, Josef Luk

Hudson Review, The

Hunt, John

Hutchins, Robert

Hymn for Vigils

 

I Always Obey My Nurse (Merton)

Idesbald, Fr.

The Idiot (Dostoievsky)

Ignace, Dom

Ignorance

Illusions

Innocence

Intelligible World The (Nishida)

“Interior man,”

Isaac of Stella

Ishi

“Ishi: A Meditation” (Merton)

Israel

Israel-Arab war

Israeli Jews

 

James, Dom [Fox]: advises Merton to break with M., anger with Merton by, censoring of mail by, complaints about mail censoring of, control of, damage to community by, decides to retire to hermitage, “experimental” foundations and, forbids Merton to contact M., forced isolation of Merton by, image of God by, Latin American foundation and, leaves for Rome, lectures Merton, letters, questionnaire of, letter to Merton from, Merton gives written commitment to, Merton’s reflections on, nature of, postcards to the community from, punishment given to Merton by, relationship between Merton and, ridicule by, treatment of Bro. Ralph by, visit to hermitage by

Jerome

Joachim, Dom

Joan of Arc, St

Job

John Baptist, Fr.

John, Fr. [Loftus]

John the Solitary

Johnson, Lyndon Baines

Johnson, Ronald

Jones, David

Jones, Penn

Jones, Rufus

Journal of My Escape from the Nazis

Journal to New Directions

Jubilee (Merton)

Jude, Bro.

Judgment

Junayd, Au’l Qasim

Justification doctrine

 

Kafka, Franz

Katallagete

Kavanaugh, Fr. James

Kelly, Robert

Kennedy, John F.

Kilburn, David

Kilian, Bro.

King, Winston

Klee, Paul

Klu Klux Klan

Koenig, Cardinal

Kosygin, Aleksey

Krolow, Karl

K., Sister

Kubyba starvation

 

La Dehesa hermitage

Laetare Sunday (1966)

“La Sorgue” (Char)

Latin American foundation

Latin American poets

Laughlin, James

Lawler, Justus George

Lax, Robert

Leclercq, Dom Jean

Lee, Laurie

Lent (1966)

Letters from Mississippi (ed. by Martinez)

Letters to a Young Poet (Rilke)

“Letter to a Wound” (Auden)

Levi, Peter

Lévi-Strauss, Claude

Life article

Light in August (Faulkner)

Liscano, Juan

Literature

Little Brothers of Jesus

Liturgy

Loftus, Fr. John

London Observer, The

London Times

Loneliness

“Long Call Is Made Out of Wheels, A” (Merton)

Lord of the Absurd (Nogar)

Louf, Dom André

Louisville Airport, May 5, 1966 poem

Love: between Merton and M., danger of platonic, erotic, for God, God as, need and, pain of, reflections on, sexual, solitude and

Lowell Robert

LSD

Lucas, Dr.

Lucidity

Lugano Review

Luk, Charles

Luke, Sister

Luther, Martin

Lyford, Joseph P.

 

M.: confides in nun from Covington, decision to marry by, developing friendship with, future plans with, goes on picnics with Merton, graduation day of, Jim Wygal’s opinion of, letters between Merton and, love between Merton and, meetings with Merton, “Midsummer Diary” from Merton to, phone conversations with, poems written for, possible plans of Merton to marry. See also Merton, Thomas

McCarthy, Mary

McCaslin, Ike

McCullers, Carson

McDonnell, Thomas P.

McDonough, Archbishop

McGruder, Pee Wee

McLuhan, Marshall

Madness and Civilization (Foucault)

Mailer, Norman

Malcolm X

Malentendu, Le

Manresa, Josefa

Manual, Babeth

Maritain, Jacques

Mark, Bro.

Married priests

Marshall, Dr.

Martin de Porres, Bro.

Marty, Martin

Marxist Catholic dialogue

Mason, Endo

Mass (at hermitage)

Mass reforms

“Mass in Time of Pestilence,”

Matthew, [Kelty] Fr.

Maurice, [Flood] Bro.

Mauser, Ulrich

Mayan cult centers

Mead, Margaret

Meatyard, Gene

Meatyard, Madie

Meditation

Meerloo, Joost

Meriwether, James B.

Merton Room

Merton, Thomas: begins conferences again, burden of expectations of, on censoring by Dom James, dreams of, on exposure of affair with M., 51st birthday, forbidden to contact M., future plans with M., gives Dom James written commitment, on gradual distancing from M., on his childhood, on his journal, on his own repentance, on his own solitude, on his own writing, infirmary stay of, on lack of future with M., La Dehesa hermitage proposed of, letters between M. and, letter to Fr. Eudes from, on light to know God, on living, love between M. and, meetings with M., “Midsummer Diary” written for M. by, on M.’s marriage plans, on new liturgy, on people’s criticism of, personal notes (1966) of, personal struggle over M. by, phone conversations with M., on picnic with children, on possible Nicaragua trip, punishment given by the Abbot to, reflections on Dom James by, reflections on own writing by, regrets/reflections over affair with M., on sexual love with M., surgery/hospital stay of, to make commitment as hermit, tumor in stomach of, on upcoming back surgery, See also Hermitage (Merton), M.

“Message of contemplatives,”

Metaphysics

“Meteor of Aug. 13” (Char)

Meyer, Catherine

Middle East crisis

Middle Eastern history

“Midsummer Diary” (Merton). See also M.

Miller, Henry

Milton, John

Misa. Oriolla

Mistral, Gabriela

Mitchell, Dr. William C.

Modern man

Monastery Council

Monasticism

Montale, Eugenio

Montherlant, Henry de

Monumenta Nipponica (Kranth)

Moon and the Bonfires, The

Mornssey, Jim

Moslem Shaikh

Mots, Les (Sartre)

“Mount Amiata,”

Muir, Edwin

Muller, Julian

Mumford, Lewis

Murray, John Courtney

Murray, Michele

Mysticism

Mystics and Zen Masters (Merton)

Mythologiques (Lévi-Strauss)

The Myth of Sisphus (Camus)

 

Nabokov, Peter

Name changing

Nasruddin tales

National Association for Pastoral Renewal

“Natural Estate, The” (Muir)

Natural state

Need

The Negro Man (Life article)

Neruda, Pablo

“New Christian Consciousness, A” (Merton)

New Yorker

Nhat Chi

Nhat Hanh, Thich

Nicholas, Fr.

Night of Destiny

Nishida

Nogar, Raymond J.

Northbourne, Lord

Norway foundation

Norwich, John Julius

Nouwen, Fr. Henri

Nuclear attack danger

 

Obedience

O’Callaghan, Diane

O’Callaghan family

O’Callaghan, Tommie

O’Connor, Flannery

Odilo, Bro.

Odor of Verbena, An (Faulkner)

O’Gorman, Ned

Oliver, Pat

Olmstead, Beatrice

Olson, Charles

“On Solitude” (Montaigne)

Ontology

Original sin

Origins (Shimpei)

Orwell, George

Ossi di Seppia (Montale)

Our Lady of Gethsemani

 

Pacem in Terris conference (Geneva)

Paddock, J.

Palestine

Palestinian monasticism

Palomares incident

Panichas, George

Paradise Lost (Milton)

Parra, Nicanor

Parsons [Sabbath], Linda

Pascal, Blaise

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

Pauker, John

Paul, Bro

Paul the Hermit

Pavese, Cesarae

Paysan de la Garonne, Le (Maritain)

Paz, Octavio

Peace demonstration

Peace News

Pensée sauvage, La (Lévi-Strauss)

Penthos (Hausherr)

Percy, Walker

Perfectae Caritatis Council Decree

Pessimism

Peter, Mother

Phillips, Bernard

Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx (Tucker)

Piontek, Heinz

Plague commentary (Merton)

Plague, The (Camus)

Plague theme

Platonic danger

Poetic experience

Poétique do l’espace, La

Poetry: Catholic, importance of, Muir’s lectures on, on South American, written by Merton

Politics and the English Language (Orwell)

Pope [Paul VI], the

Portrait d’un inconnu (Sarraute)

“Post-Conciliar” theology

Poverty vow

Prayer

Preoccupations

Privacy

Protestant Mystics

Psalms, Latin

Psychanalyse de Feu (Bachelard)

Pueblo Indians

 

Quantum physics

 

Race riots

Racial issues

Rahner, R.

Raids (Merton)

Ralph, Bro.

Rancé, Armand-Jean

Randall, Meg

Ransom, John Crowe

Reading

Reality

Red China

Redeeming the Time (Merton)

Red Guards (China)

Réflexions sur la guillotine (Camus)

Reinhardt, Ad

Religious fads

Renegade (Camus)

Repentance

Responsibility

Retreats

Retrospect (Merton), Intro.

Revolt

Rice, Ed

Riesman, David

Rieux, Br. Bernard

Rilke, Rainer Maria

“Rite for Ejection of Lepers,”

“Road to Mandalay, The” (song)

Roethke, Theodore

Roman Catholic reforms

Roser, Dr.

Ross, Nancy Wilson

Roy, Cardinal Maurice

Ruether, Rosemary Radford

Rule for Recluses, A (ed. by Olgin)

Rule of St. Benedict

 

Sacraments

Sacred Wood (Eliot)

Sacrifice

St. Pierre, Dr.

Salman, Fr.

Salvation

Sarraute, Nathalie

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Saul Bellow (Dommergues)

Schinzinger, Robert

Schmidt, Mary Ann

Schumann, Martha

Scott, Matt

Secularization

Seitz, Ron

Sevareid, Eric

Seven Storey Mountain (Merton)

“Seven Words” (O’Gorman)

Sewanee Review

Sexual love

Shah, Idries

Shahn, Ben

Sheen, Bishop Fulton J.

Shepherd, Bob

Shimpei, Kusano

Shine, Judy

“Silver Dagger” (Baez)

Simeon, Dom

Sinyavsky, Andrei

A Sketch of His Life and Writings (Milton)

Slate, John

Slum life

Smith, Carleton

Smith, Tom Jerry

Snowdon, Lord

Snyder, Gary

Solitary life: as act, by God’s will, gratitude for, illusion and, love and, reflections on, See also Hermitage (Merton’s)

Sonnets to Orpheus [Rilke]

Soul

Soul on Ice (Cleaver)

Sound and the Fury, The (Faulkner)

South American poets

Spanish Harlem photo book

Spanish writers

Spencer foundation (Chile)

“Spiritual preoccupations,”

Spring

Steeple

Stein, Gertrude

Stephen, Fr.

Steppenwolf

Stevens, Wallace

Stone, I. F.

Stranger (Camus)

“Suffering in Greek Thought and in the Bible,”

Suicide

Sur (Merton)

Syke, Gerald

Symbolism

Szilard, Leo

 

Tadié, Marie

Taparra, Fidel

Tarcisius, [James Conner] Fr.

Tauler, Johannes

“Taxman” (Beatles)

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre

Temptation

Theokistos

Theology

Thera, Nyanaponika

Thomas, R. S.

Thoughts in Solitude (Merton)

“Three Saviors in Camus:” (Merton)

“Thursday’s Child” (Hamilton)

Time

Time-Life books

Timothy, [Kelly] Fr.

Total institution question

Trial (Kafka)

Truth

Tucker, Robert C.

Two Leggings (ed. by Nabokov)

 

U., Fr.

Unamuno y Jugo, Miguel de

Understanding Media (McLuhan)

“Un Oiseau …”(Char)

 

Vahanian. Gabriel

Vallejo, César

Vatican II

Vie de Rancé(Chateaubriand)

Vietcong

Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire (Nhat Hanh)

Vietnam War

Vigil of Epiphany (1966)

Village-Castle relationship

Virtue

Vita Antonii (Athanasius of Alexandria)

Vita (Jerome)

Vital, Dom

Von Balthasar, Urs

 

Walgrave, P.

Walsh, Dan

Walsh, Mary Ellen

War

Warnock, G. J.

War and peace

War on poverty

Warren Commission report

Watt, Fr. Joe

Watts, Alan

Welsh, Pat

Wesselman, Bob

“What Is a Classic?” (Eliot)

Whitman, Walt

Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thought (Williams)

Wilderness theme (Biblical)

Wilderness (Williams)

Wild Palms, The (Faulkner)

Willett, Thompson

Williams, George

William, Sister Marion

Williams, Jonathan

Williams, William Carlos

Wilson, Nancy

Winandy, Dom

“With the World in My Bloodstream” (Merton)

Wright, James

Wu, John

Wygal, Jim

 

Yahi Indians

Yungblut, June

Yungblut, Jan

 

Zapotecan city of Monte Alban

Zen

“Zen and the Cloud,”

Zen people

Zionist nation

Zorca Franca

Zukofsky, Louis