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Merton wrote more than 70 books, mostly on spirituality, social justice and a quiet pacifism, as well as scores of essays and reviews, including his best-selling autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain ( 1948 ), which sent scores of World War II veterans, students, and even teen-agers flocking to monasteries across the US, and was also featured in National Reviews list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the century.
In The Seven Storey Mountain, Merton remarks:
The Seven Storey Mountain also describes a visit to Tre Fontane, a Trappist monastery in Rome.
It is possible some of this may have concerned his time at Cambridge, though he is never specific in The Seven Storey Mountain about precisely what he felt he was hiding.
A poem by Merton to John Paul appears at the end of The Seven Storey Mountain.
The same year Merton's manuscript for The Seven Storey Mountain was accepted by Harcourt Brace & Company for publication.
The Seven Storey Mountain, Merton ’ s autobiography, was written during two-hour intervals in the monastery scriptorium as a personal project.
In 1948 The Seven Storey Mountain was published to critical acclaim, with fan mail to Merton reaching new heights.
Published that year were Seeds of Contemplation, The Tears of Blind Lions, The Waters of Siloe, and the British edition of The Seven Storey Mountain under the title Elected Silence.
By this time Merton was a huge success outside the monastery, The Seven Storey Mountain having sold over 150, 000 copies.
During his long years at Gethsemani Merton changed from the passionately inward-looking young monk of The Seven Storey Mountain, to a more contemplative writer and poet.
According to The Seven Storey Mountain, the youthful Merton loved jazz but by the time he began his first teaching job he had forsaken all but peaceful music.
* 1978 – Merton, Thomas, The Seven Storey Mountain ( 1978 ), A Harvest / HBJ Book, ISBN 0-15-680679-7.
* Thomas Merton-The Seven Storey Mountain
* In Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain, an Autobiography of Faith, he writes about the false humility of hell:
In his biography, The Seven Storey Mountain, Merton describes Lax at a meeting with other Jester staff: " Taller than them all, and more serious, with a long face, like a horse, and a great mane of black hair on top of it, Bob Lax meditated on some incomprehensible woe.
The Seven Storey Mountain is the 1948 autobiography of Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk and a noted author of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
The Seven Storey Mountain was published in 1948 and was met with surprising levels of public attention.
The Seven Storey Mountain is an autobiography which reflects on the life of Thomas Merton and his quest for his faith in God leading to his conversion to Roman Catholicism at age 23.
In late in 1946, the partly approved text of The Seven Storey Mountain was sent to Naomi Burton, his agent at Curtis Brown literary agency, who then forwarded it to the noted book editor, Robert Giroux at Harcourt Brace publishers.
The following week, The Seven Storey Mountain appeared in the bestseller's list, where it remained there for almost a year.
In The Seven Storey Mountain Merton seems to be struggling to answer a spiritual call ; the worldly influences of his earlier years have been compared with the story of St. Augustine's conversion as described in his Confessions.
The Seven Storey Mountain is said to have struck a nerve amidst a society longing for renewed personal meaning and direction in the aftermath of a long, bloody war ( World War II ), and at a time when global annihilation was increasingly imaginable due to the development of atomic bombs and even more powerful thermonuclear weapons.
The Seven Storey Mountain is a book one reads with a pencil so as to make it one's own.

Seven and Mountain
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The company is known for producing all their non-diet products with cane sugar, most of which are Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. ( formerly Dr Pepper / Seven Up, Inc .) products but also include Mountain Dew.
Downhill skiers enjoy nearby Seven Springs, Hidden Valley and Laurel Mountain ski resorts.
* Seven Springs Mountain Resorts
The borough is well known for nearby Idlewild Park, one of the oldest amusement parks in the country, and nearby Seven Springs Mountain Resort.
* Thomas Merton, in his autobiography Seven Story Mountain, tells of living in Ealing for a time with his Aunt and Uncle.
Instead he joined the Navy for three years, serving with Patron ( Patrol Squadron ) Forty Seven ( VP-47 ) of Moffett Field in Mountain View, California as a Petty Officer Third Class Aviation Store Keeper ( AK3 ) until his honorable discharge.
Ride, Six By Seven, Mogwai, Bardo Pond, The Flowers of Hell, Yume Bitsu, 7 % Solution, Lockgroove, Luna, Windy & Carl, Five Way Mirror, The Third Eye Foundation, American Analog Set, Black Mountain, Flying Saucer Attack, Asteroid No. 4, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Colorsound, The Warlocks, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Icarus Line, The Morning After Girls, Scarling, and Wooden Shjips.
He gained early fame as the commander of the " Light Division " in the Seven Days Battles and became one of Stonewall Jackson's ablest subordinates, distinguishing himself in the 1862 battles of Cedar Mountain, Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg.
Korean Shamanism held three spirits in especially high regard: Sanshin ( the Mountain Spirit ), Toksong ( the Recluse ) and Chilsong ( the Spirit of the Seven Stars, the Big Dipper ).

Seven and brief
Despite several brief interludes of British occupation, including once during the Seven Years ' War and twice during the Napoleonic Wars, Martinique has remained a French possession.
As in Serling's 1963 screenplay for the political thriller, Seven Days in May, in which a highly moral minor character is named Art Corwin, the appellation of Carney's " Night of the Meek " character, Henry Corwin, was a tribute to Serling's idol, legendary television, film and, most memorably for Serling, radio writer Norman Corwin whose lengthy career, in contrast to Serling's relatively brief 50-year lifetime, had spanned over seven decades.
Seven years after Lee's death, a direct-to-video Swedish film titled Sex, Lögner & Videovåld ( Sex, Lies & Video Violence ) was released in which Lee had a very brief cameo appearance.
* Australia: Play Your Cards Right was hosted by comedian Ugly Dave Gray for Seven Network for a brief time in 1984.
* A brief overview of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey ( 1989 )
Staite played the role of head medical doctor Jennifer Keller in the Stargate SG-1 spinoff Stargate Atlantis, making her the third actor from the Firefly series to move on to appear in a Stargate series ( the first being Adam Baldwin, who had a brief role as a colonel in the Stargate SG-1 Season Seven episode " Heroes ", and the second being Morena Baccarin, who played Adria, the main villain in the tenth season of SG-1 ), and the second to take a recurring role.
* Neelix makes a brief appearance on the communications screen talking to Seven of Nine.
After a brief move back to France, he returned to the US and made Seven Years Bad Luck and Be My Wife but neither were able to find a major audience in the US.
Although there are no proofs that the island of Seven Cities actually existed, the belief of their existence, some tentative expeditions and brief unconfirmed visual sightings of Atlantic islands, fostered legends during the European Middle Ages.
Also Roger Taylor's single The Unblinking Eye features a brief Stylophone solo and Queen producer Roy Thomas Baker played stylophone on Seven Seas Of Rhye from Queen II.
Despite a brief senior career — only 45 games over four seasons — he led the Silver Seven in its reign as Stanley Cup champions for four seasons ( 1903 – 06 ), playing both centre and rover.
Lightray makes several brief, non speaking appearances in Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers of Victory series, where his human form is a frail man on crutches.
He studied in Germany from 1904 to 1907 Although his official association with the Group of Seven was brief, his friendship with the artists dated back over a much longer period In 1910, he left for the United States where he studied art in Philadelphia and worked in commercial design in New York.
* A brief history of the Canadian Group of Seven
The film was released to theaters for a brief theatrical run under the alternate title, Seven Doors of Death.
In the mid seventies they started to spell out the daytime call letters on-air " C-H-Y-R " as well as use the phrase " Super Seven Cheer " and variations with a new Pepper / Tanner jingle package ( reportedly as a light poke at the " Big 8 " just up the road in Windsor ), but overall the format approach and on-air policy was always " bright, tight, brief and real!
* While it is later made clear in Season Seven that The First cannot touch anything, The First as Jenny Calendar touches Angel and, while the touch is brief, his hair visibly moves.

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