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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