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...He replied at once, saying, "I felt rather cheap after making those statements, reflecting on all Catholic poets en masse, I wouldn't have said what I did if I did not believe it --but wish I had avoided the subject...
...I I Commonweal: 418 simply by the fact recurring again and again of the mistreatment of one portion of humanity by another portion of hu- manity...
...If it is true, as Richard Rubenstein and Arthur A. Cohen (in his recent book The Tremendum) have written, that the rela- tionship of the Jew to his God is the most crucial question after Auschwitz, then by right of its subject matter alone The Faith and Doubt of Holocaust Survivors is a work of vast importance...
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...As to my having been a "pen-pal" of Merton's, albeit a "poetic" one, I have never so considered myself...
...Letters of not more than 250 or 300 words naturally have a better chance of being published.9 physical health, through all our correspondence there is no indication of what one might designate as neurosis...
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...Thus, it makes working (and paying taxes) relatively more attractive than not working (and receiving benefits) or than working in the underground economy...
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...As to th e question why in my study of Merton's poetry, Words and Silence, as a "soul sister" I had not revealed "more intimate glimpses of Merton's inner vis- ion and its motivation," let a line of Abbot Flavian's address to his monks after Merton's death give something of an answer...
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...The further truth is that the only people who are being asked to sacrifice are the poor, especially the working poor and the middle-bracket people...
...The reduction of marginal tax rates for the highly productive (and the highly paid) reduces the cost of being highly productive...
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...Simply stated, the Reagan plan will make highly pro- ductive economic activity relatively more attractive than less (or non-) pro- ductive economic activity...
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...But, withal, it conforms nicely to President Reagan's directives...
...To the Editors: I would like to comment on James Baker's fine reviews of the quintet of late Merton books, under the head "A Kinsman to So Many" [Apr...
...10 ]. With his estimate of James Forest's Thomas Merton, A Pictorial Biography, that because of its brevity and splendid photography it will be much read by fu- ture generations, I heartily agree...
...As for balancing the budget, it is al- most certain that the deficits in the cona- ing four years will be the largest ones this nation has ever known, just as Com-monweal points out in its excellent edi- torial...
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...Ross Labrie's The Art of Thomas Merton is superbly that...
...The wealthy and the near-wealthy will make no sacrifices at all but will be rewarded just for being rich...
...But to suggest that there is no further need for Michael Mott's "official" biography is far from the truth...
...The mixture, of course, is an irresponsible and incredible increase in multibillions to be thrown at the Pentagon, coupled with almost equally irresponsible tax cuts, mainly for the rich...
...They have claimed.that they were seeking deep cuts in domestic programs in order to balance the budget...
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...This oc- curred after the Coolidge and Kennedy tax cuts and after Representative Steiger's recent halving of the capital gains tax rates...
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...To the Editors: The new American Am- bassador to El Salvador, Deane R. Hin- ton, as quoted in a UPI dispatch, June 16, said: "No one would pretend the human rights situation is what it should be, neither the military commanders I have talked to nor the civilian members of the junta, but they are trying...
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...20, 1948), though the review was entirely favorable, I was irked by his closing re- mark that for poets writing on the Mary- theme, it too often served as "only a hook on which to hang their own portrait, or worse still, their own case history...
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...The supply-side irony is that the rich actually pay more tax dollars tO the government after their marginal tax rates are reduced...
...Raymond Bailey in his The Mysticism of Thomas Merton, namely, that "Merton was the healthiest and most normal man he had ever known...
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...This has been amply proved by the Puerto Rican tax rate reductions which delivered both in- creased tax revenues and increased tax rolls...
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...It was precisely during these years that Merton and I were in almost constant communication, due to my helping him in organizing and typing out the six series of "Orientation Notes," conferences to the choir novices...
...Any nuclear war is totally contra-indicated for the survival of the gone pool...
...And he kept his marvelous sense of humor...
...This is a book of profound questions and equally profound answers, a book that throws our complacence into sharp relief...
...For its scholarly treat- ment of Merton as narrative writer, diarist, essayist, and poet, I doubt if it can ever be matched...
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...Since through the years Merton occasionally sent me a journal to read "to amuse you," as he liked to say, I can attest to their being rich and illuminating in personal insight...
...What Reagan is doing is not asking people to endure cuts in their nutrition ~, diets, education, health care, and pro- grams to protect the air we need to , breadae, in order to balance the budget and reduce inflation...
...Tile Solitary Explorer by Elena Malits admirably covers his search-- what if an early New York Times reviewer featured three fac- tual errors in its first paragraph...
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...He is demanding these sacrifices by the people in order to take even more money than is to be saved by the cuts and give it to the Pentagon to increase our overkill and to the nuclear industry in the form of still greater sub- sidies...
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...But when I found his review of my Marian anthology, 1 Sing ofaMaiden in Commonweal (Feb...
...Thus, it makes great eco-nomic productivity relatively more at-tractive than less productive or tax-avoidance activity...
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...On the contrary, these notes, covering some seven hundred pages of manuscript, witness to a mammoth task of reading and research no neurotic could ever have accomplished...
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...This began a friendship which continued until his death...
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...As a noted scholar he will be able to give us a close, even balancing of the Merton biographical data that only the private papers and journals can sup- ply, and which, as official biographer...
...we knew him from his spoken word...
...The truth is that the Reagan program is one of transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich, from life-sustaining programs to death-assuring ones...
...there are a number of inaccuracies in Monica Fur- long's well researched Thomas Merton, A Biography, as well...
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...Few if any knew him in his secret prayer.., this is what gave the inner life to all he said and wrote...
...How many of us, members of a com- paratively staid society, are so unshaka- ble in our resolve...
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...I will continue to pursue human rights cases, particu- larly those cases involving American citizens...
...To the Editors: Thanks to Commonweal from everyone who cares about human survival for your lead editorial of June 5 about "President Reagan's Dangerous Mixture...
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...In all friendships there are reti- cences...
...It was Merton himself who in 1939 initiated our correspondence over a poem of mine he .9had read and liked...
...Clearly a stance of magisterial impartiality, in which silence assures evenhanded justice and the tortured and the torturer are treated alike, scrupul- ously so...
...By definition, the reduction of mar- ginal tax rates for the working poor re- duces the cost of working...
...I .9decided to write him and did, gently chid- ing him for his remark...
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...Were one allowed to cross the threshold of his "house of the spirit," and share some knowledge of this "inner prayer," the reticences are inviolable...
...Although James Baker mentions what he rightly calls Monica Furlong's "occa- sional lapses into pop psychoanalysis," he takes seriously what she describes as Merton's "amateur journey into neurosis in the 1950s...
...If his creative work suffered during these years it was not because he was nursing a neurosis...
...When asked to describe God, the largest group of survivors felt that He was everything that Jewish tradition had claimed--omnipotent, benevolent, un-doubtedly omniscient, and loving as well--even though his ways must remain incomprehensible...
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