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.

In The Seven Storey Mountain, the brief chapter on Cambridge paints a fairly dark, negative picture of his life there but is short on detail.

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.

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.

Master-planned residential areas include Anthem, Anthem Country Club, Black Mountain Vistas, Calico Ridge, Champion Village, Green Valley, Green Valley Ranch, Inspirada, Lake Las Vegas, MacDonald Highlands, MacDonald Ranch, Madeira Canyon, Seven Hills, Sun City Anthem, Sun City MacDonald Ranch, Tuscany Residential Village, and Whitney Ranch.

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 ).

* 1984 – Mott, Michael, The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton ( 1984 ), Harvest Books 1993: ISBN 0-15-680681-9, 710 p. authorized biography.

Thomas Merton, however, had been continuously expanding and maturing his spiritual perspectives, and soon realized the irony of the public's continuing interest in the figure that he presented in The Seven Storey Mountain.

In The Sign of Jonas, published in 1953, Merton says that “ The Seven Storey Mountain is the work of a man I have never even heard of .” More reflectively, Merton penned an introduction to a 1966 Japanese edition of The Seven Storey Mountain saying " Perhaps if I were to attempt this book today, it would be written differently.

Various writers have noted the irony of his life ’ s tragic conclusion, given that The Seven Storey Mountain closes by admonishing the reader to “ learn to know the Christ of the burnt men ” ( see, e. g., Edward Rice, The Man in The Sycamore Tree, 1979 ; Rice was a close friend of Merton from his college years ).

The Seven Storey Mountain propelled Thomas Merton into a life of ironic contradictions: a man who left an urban intellectual career for a labor-oriented rural existence, only to be led back into the realm of international opinion and debate ; a man who spurned the literary world for the anonymity of cenobitic life in a Trappist monastery, only to become a world-famous author ; and a man who professed his devotion to remain fixed in the confines of a monastic cell, only to fulfill an urge to travel throughout Asia.

The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.

Clark's Seven Years of a Sailor ’ s Life ( 1867 ).

Other significant state owned newspapers are the daily Respublika ( The Republic ), published by the Cabinet of Ministers, and the weeklies Sem ’ Dnei ( Seven Days ) and Narodnaya Gazeta ( The People ’ s Paper ).

This was because of France ’ s financial obligations stemming from involvement in the Seven Years War and its participation in the American Revolutionary War.

Seven members of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology ’ s mobile search team will plunge into some of the most forbidding wilderness in southwestern Florida.

Among these were Rome ’ s great sewer systems, the Cloaca Maxima, which he used to drain the swamp-like area between the Seven Hills of Rome.

Prussia ’ s appetite for the economically and culturally more developed territories of Saxony originated in the old dream of annexation that Frederick II had developed in his political testament of 1752 and had already tried to realize in the Seven Years ' War.

Tapiola did not form part of any wider plan for Finland ’ s development other than von Hertzen ’ s Seven Towns Plan, a response to urban sprawl in Helsinki.

In his letter of 1769 to Russia ’ s Count P. Panin, the Georgian king Erekle II, in his description of Nagorno Karabakh, suggests: " Seven families rule the region of Khamse.

Enyo was involved in the war of the Seven Against Thebes and Dionysus ’ s war with the Indians as well.

With France and Spain ’ s defeat in the Seven Years War in 1763, France ceded Louisiana to Spain and most of the rest of New France to the British who also received Florida from Spain.

However, the moderator, concerned about the contest ’ s low television ratings, offers Lisa free tuition (' and a hot plate ') at the Seven Sisters college of her choice if she will allow a more popular contestant ( who happens to be a boy ) to win.

Seven others are Scientific National Parks, totalling 522 km² ( 0. 03 % of the state ’ s area ).

Seven years later Mot returns and attacks Ba ‘ al in a battle which ceases only when Shapsh tells Mot that El now supports Ba ’ al.

Dodds played in Louis Armstrong ’ s famous Hot Five and Hot Seven groups.

In 1857 the Savannah, Albany and Gulf Railroad Company ’ s line from Savannah, Georgia to Screven ( then known as Station Seven ) was completed when then trestle was built over the Altamaha River at Doctortown.

It is host to regular lectures and events concerned with preserving Britain ’ s wetland animals, and was featured on the BBC television programme Seven Natural Wonders in 2005 as one of the wonders of the London area, with a focus on the region's parakeets, in an episode presented by Bill Oddie.

Herrmann, who had a full schedule of films planned for 1976, including DePalma ’ s Carrie, The Seven Per Cent Solution and Larry Cohen ’ s God Told Me To, was reportedly happy to be in a position to ignore Hitchcock ’ s reunion offer.

Fast Forward was commissioned and produced in 1989 by Vizard ’ s production company, United Film Completion, and broadcast on Seven Network, then part of Christopher Skase ’ s Quintex Group.

The Center ’ s Web site also lists 11 books that it has published dating back to 1990, and a number of monographs including Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy, The Inspiring Story of Thomas Clarkson: A Student's Essay that Changed the World, both by Lawrence Reed, and With Clear Eyes, Sincere Hearts and Open Minds: A Second Look at Public Education in America by Andrew Coulson.