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	The Ecstacy of Owen Muir - PowerBookSearch!
		I began my research for this book in 1950 as an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, where I was serving a one-year sentence for a rare crime called contempt of Congress.
		Because of his refusal to reveal his beliefs and associations in 1947 before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Lardner was fllisted in Hollywood and, three years later, sentenced to a year in prison.
		During that time he began research on his novel THE ECSTACY OF OWEN MUIR (1954), a searing indictment of American society during the McCarthy era.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch1573921734.html (1541 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Ecstasy of Owen Muir, by Ring Lardner Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		...In short, the trouble with Owen Muir, from the author's point of view, is not that he tries to live according to the ideas he adopts but that he adopts the wrong ideas...
		...Owen realizes that exactly opposite views are held by millions of Americans, and he decides that, in order to act effectively, a man must choose one side or the other...
		...For a time Owen tries to take up arms against the injustices he has been forced to recognize, but the effort is too much for him and he enters a Trappist monastery...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V20I3P94-1.htm (1394 words)

	Letters to a Friend
		When John Muir was a student in the University of Wisconsin he was a frequent caller at the house of Dr. Ezra S. Carr.
		Most of them were written from the Yosemite Valley, and they give a good notion of the life Muir led there, sheep-herding, guiding, and tending a sawmill at intervals to earn his daily bread, but devoting his real self to an ardent scientific study of glacial geology and a joyous and reverent communion with Nature.
		Muir thanks him for his pretty flowers and would like to see him, also that I have a story for him which I shall tell some other time.
	www.yosemite.ca.us /john_muir_writings/letters_to_a_friend (18513 words)

	The Last of the Hollywood Ten. - The Progressive - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		From federal prison, he penned The Ecstasy of Owen Muir (Cameron & Kahn, 1954), one of the funniest anti-military, anti-corporate novels imaginable.
		The naive son of an industrialist becomes philosophically converted to pacifism on the eve of war and is sent to prison for shunning the draft.
		Once he's released, Muir tries to lead a normal life, but when he learns about the shabby morals of business and the property arrangements behind his own middle class marriage, he turns to Catholicism only to find church leaders solidly in support of corporations and the war machine.
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	William Cronon - LTA Plenary
		When John Muir arrived in the Sierra Nevada in 1869, he would declare, “No description of Heaven that I have ever heard or read of seems half so fine.” (8) He was hardly alone in expressing such emotions.
		Even John Muir, in arguing against those who sought to dam his beloved Hetch Hetchy valley in the Sierra Nevada, argued for alternative dam sites in the gentler valleys of the foothills—a preference that had nothing to do with nature and everything with the cultural traditions of the sublime.
		Owen Wister, The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (New York: Macmillan, 1902), pp.
	history.wisc.edu /cronon/Trouble_with_Wilderness_Main.html (10019 words)

	Western Literature Association
		“Owen Wister’s Lin McLean: The Failure of the Vernacular Hero.” 5.3 (Fall 1970).
		“Owen Wister’s Virginian: The Genesis of a Cultural Hero.” 6.2 (Summer 1971).
		Nesbitt, John D. “Owen Wister’s Achievement in Literary Tradition.” 18.3 (Fall 1983).
	www.usu.edu /westlit/saleindex.htm (8377 words)

	An Ever Diverse Pair: Chapter One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In the writings of Owen Barfield, positivism is always a derogatory term.
		Barfield, far from dissolving the universe along with the human self in a final paroxysm of ecstasy, speaks of the time when our felt-consciousness will perceive our inherent participation—our presence in and with—all of nature, a presence that is caught up into the Divine Mystery everywhere revealed.
		Though one might hope that the specter of positivism was finally exorcised from culture, it must be admitted that (post-modernity notwithstanding) positivism is alive and well in the twenty-first century.
	www.owenbarfield.com /Barfield_Scholarship/Sherman/Four.htm (8187 words)

	Satire Through Mimicry (The Nation, March 5, 1955)
		The article presents information on "The Ecstasy of Owen Muir," by Ring Lardner Jr.
		Wielding the napier of satire, Lardner in "The Ecstasy of Owen Muir," makes shambles of rigid Catholic dogma, political stuffed-shirtism, and moral double-think.
		The flaw in "The Ecstasy of Owen Muir" is that Lardner limits his attack, there are areas of extreme political and social thought equally open to satire which he approaches too gingerly.
	www.thenation.com /archive/detail/13352091 (150 words)

	FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog » Federal Judiciary
		Part I relates to the currently pending judicial nominees; Part II relates to subsequent individual nominations to be made by the President and to be acted upon by the Senate’s Judiciary Committee.
		At immediate issue was the nomination of Priscilla Owen, a member of the Texas Supreme Court, nominated to a seat on the federal appeals court.
		But the stakes were far broader than that, with Republicans seeking to strip Democrats of their right to filibuster nominees to the appeals court and Supreme Court.
	flapsblog.com /?cat=21&paged=2 (4167 words)

	Class Notes - February 10, 1999
		A year ago, to mark the fllist's 50th anniversary, Prometheus Books republished Lardner's comic novel, The Ecstasy of Owen Muir, which he researched while serving 10 months in federal prison.
		His crime was contempt of Congress -- like his fellow members of the "Hollywood Ten," Lardner refused to tell the House Committee on Un-American Activities whether he was a Communist.
		The novel, a fl comedy about the marriage between a less-than-observant Catholic-born woman and a zealous convert, was rejected by American publishers -- one told Lardner parochial schools might boycott that publisher's textbooks if it bought his book.
	www.princeton.edu /~paw/archive_old/PAW98-99/09-0210/0210cns.html (1667 words)

	The Bee-Pastures, Chapter 16, 'The Mountains of California' by John Muir (1894) - John Muir Writings
		The Mountains of California by John Muir (1894)
		The greater portion of this immense region, including Owen’s Valley, Death Valley, and the Sink of the Mohave, the area of which is nearly one fifth that of the entire State, is usually regarded as a desert, not because of any lack in the soil, but for want of rain, and rivers available for irrigation.
		In short, notwithstanding the wide-spread deterioration and destruction of every kind already effected, California, with her incomparable climate and flora, is still, as far as I know, the best of all the bee-lands of the world.
	www.yosemite.ca.us /john_muir_writings/the_mountains_of_california/chapter_16.html (7633 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ecstasy of Owen Muir: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In this brilliantly comic and pungent tale, Lardner dissects the thought control of the McCarthy era, business ethics, racial intolerance, repressive sexual attitudes, the Manhattan nightclub set, "enlightened" penology, vigilantism, and other social phenomena.
		The ecstasy which Owen Muir seeks is of both the earthly and the spiritual kind, and his wonderfully funny fate lies in the fact that he cannot have his flesh and eat it, too.
		Set in post World War II America, this classic novel is the story of what happens when an idealistically, fiercely honest young man, with no strong religious affiliation, marries a Roman Catholic woman.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0452250676 (250 words)

	Records International Catalogue August 1998
		Palmer made his adaptation of the glorious music from the Olivier film in 1991, providing a clear narrative sequence and leaving the music as far as possible as it was in the film (a five-movement suite by Muir Matheson did much violence to sequence and music).
		For reasons of economy, a second narrator is used in place of a chorus (and for other characters except the King).
		Completed in 1939 and premiered during the Nazi occupation in 1942, Françaix evokes an atmosphere of miracle and of religious ecstasy in the fluid orchestral colors, sweet cantilenas and choral psalmody of the music of heaven.
	www.recordsinternational.com /RICatalogAug98.html (10383 words)

	New and Noteworthy Paperbacks
		This is a ''lively and well-informed'' discussion, Owen Harries said here last year.
		In this satiric novel, two earnest sociologists infiltrate a cult of flying-saucer enthusiasts called the Truth Seekers, and find their scientific detachment eroding under the sway of the group and its beautiful high priestess.
		Kara Guidry, an Army lawyer, struggles to solve a series of murders of young women soldiers at Fort Benning, Ga. This ''fast-paced and timely'' thriller blends ''a solid plot with a piercing critique of hypocrisy,'' our reviewer, Erik Burns, said here in 1997.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/98/05/10/nnp/noteworthy.html (658 words)

	Ecstasy of Owen Muir by Ring Lardner : Booksamillion.com (1573921734, Paperback)
		Ecstasy of Owen Muir by Ring Lardner : Booksamillion.com (1573921734, Paperback)
		In this brilliantly comic and pungent tale, Lardner dissects the thought control of the McCarthy era, business ethics, racial intolerance, repressive sexual attitudes, the Manhattan nightclub set, "enlightened" penology, vigilantism, and other social phenomena.
		The ecstasy which Owen Muir seeks is of both the earthly and the spiritual kind, and his wonderfully funny fate lies in the fact that he cannot have his flesh and eat it, too.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?id=3687919806511&isbn=1573921734 (131 words)

	Powell's Books - The Ecstasy of Owen Muir (Literary Classics) by Ring Lardner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The classic novel The Ecstasy of Owen Muir is the story of what happens in 1940s America when an idealistically, fiercely honest young man, with no strong religious affiliation, marries a Roman Catholic woman.
		In this brilliantly comic and pungent tale, Lardner dissects the thought control of the McCarthy era, business ethics, racial intolerance, attitudes toward sex, the Manhattan nightclub set, judicial procedures, and other social phenomenon.
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	powells.com /biblio?isbn=1573921734 (296 words)

	Amazon.com: The Ecstasy of Owen Muir (Literary Classics Series): Books: Ring Lardner Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Amazon.com: The Ecstasy of Owen Muir (Literary Classics Series): Books: Ring Lardner Jr.
		(Author) "At the age of twelve Owen Muir was elected president of the student body at the East Point, Long Island, Progressive School..." (more)
		At the age of twelve Owen Muir was elected president of the student body at the East Point, Long Island, Progressive School.
	www.amazon.com /Ecstasy-Owen-Muir-Literary-Classics/dp/1573921734 (2021 words)

	Remembering Ring (The Nation, December 4, 2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		This article presents information on the works of author Ring Lardner.
		Ring's novel, The Ecstasy of Owen Muir, begun in 1950 while he was serving prison sentence for contempt of U.S. Congress.
		Ring felt sufficiently pleased to have the longhand note framed under glass, which he then slipped into a shirt drawer.
	www.thenation.com /archive/detail/3813792 (132 words)

	Special Collections Manuscripts - Margaret Herrick Library - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
		After serving ten months of a one-year sentence in 1950, he was unable to find work as a screenwriter and eventually turned to television, where he wrote under various pseudonyms (often in collaboration with Ian McLellan Hunter).
		Lardner is also the author of the novels The Ecstasy of Owen Muir (1955) and All for Love (1985); a memoir, The Lardners: My Family Remembered (1976); and a Broadway musical, Foxy (1985, in collaboration with Hunter).
		Collection spans the years 1929-1994 (bulk 1947-1977) and encompasses 6.25 linear feet.
	www.oscars.org /mhl/sc/lardnerjr_96.html (447 words)

	FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog » 2005 » October
		Williams, 53, was sentenced to death in 1981 for fatally shooting Albert Owens, a Whittier convenience store worker, in 1979.
		Miers has faced attacks from both sides of the political spectrum — most notably from the president’s conservative allies — though none of the Senate’s majority Republicans has come out against her.
		President Bush’s claim that she is the most qualified candidate has been roundly criticized by conservatives who wanted him to look to conservative federal judges like Priscilla Owen or Janice Rogers Brown.
	flapsblog.com /?m=200510&paged=2 (11459 words)

	Howes Bookshop
		CHADWICK (Owen) Britain and the Vatican during the Second World War.
		The English Church and the Continent; Lectures [by David Knowles, W. Pantin, Owen Chadwick, etc].
		Edited with introduction by L. Muir and J. White.
	www.howes.co.uk /301-1.htm (9851 words)

	The Lardner Dynasty - Ring, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		And like his fellow communists, he continued working under pseudonyms (aka.
		Here, he began to write his first and only novel, "The Ecstasy of Owen Muir" (Ecstasy, online).
		After Bill was released from prison, he and Frances went to Mexico City to live.
	iml.jou.ufl.edu /projects/Fall99/Bembrey/bill.html (845 words)

	Andover Alumni Authors Class of 1932
		I'd hate myself in the morning : a memoir
		The ecstasy of Owen Muir : a novel
		Veeck as in wreck : the autobiography of Bill Veeck
	www.andover.edu /library/BOOKLISTS/AA/AA1932.htm (215 words)

	Ring Lardner Jr. Life Stories, Books, & Links
		Though Lardner's adult fame was earned -- screenplay Oscars for Woman of the Year (1942) and MASH (1970), the novel The Ecstasy* of Owen Muir (1954); fllisting as one of McCarthy's "Hollywood Ten" -- he met the public early, often and hilariously in his father's daily column, usually as "Bill."
		Lardner talks with Don Swaim in 1985 about his father, his life as a reporter and a screenwriter, working for David Selznik, politics, the Hollywood Ten, his Oscar-winning screenplays for Woman of the Year and MASH, and his novels, The Ecstasy* of Owen Muir and All for Love." (44 minutes)
		Film critic Gerald Peary discusses the writer's life and reputation, and reminisces about meeting Lardner at Havana Fest, a Cuban film festival.
	www.todayinliterature.com /biography/ring.lardner.jr.asp (800 words)

	THADDEUS - CATALOGUE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Very good condition+ in lightly worn dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
		Who they are, what they want, where they think they're going.
		Very good condition in lightly chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
	www.thaddeusbooks.com /amer.htm (9585 words)

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