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...false alarm from the fire-box next to the Lampoon building brought an eight-piece armada of the Cambridge Fire Department to the CRIMSON building at 14 Plympton Street at 8:40 p.m. last night in search of a major conflagration...
Chicago Bookdealer Georgia Lingafelt concluded that "people have a halfhearted search going on inside them, even though they don't know it and would be embarrassed to admit...
...monk. Both books are the work of 34-year-old Thomas Merton, who has retired from the world to live under a monastic rule so strict that it forbids even the self-indulgence of talking. Trendspotters have begun to wonder whether some of the U.S. reading public, in its search for peace, subconsciously wishes it could follow...
Halfhearted Search. "America," Trappist Merton has written, "is discovering the contemplative life." British Novelist Evelyn Waugh- supports such a possibility. In a letter to Author Merton, Waugh said: "I believe there are thousands of men and women in the world who are temperamentally suited to monastic life but have no effective vocation simply because they are ignorant of the very existence of religious life. Indeed, a thesis might be developed to show that the health of society depends on a right balance between monks and laymen-the revolution of the 14th Century took place because the monasteries were full...
...Waksman's slow, unspectacular search for new antibiotics still goes on. In the past ten years he and his associates at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University, New Brunswick have examined more than 100,000 cultures of organisms found in the soil of nearby farms...