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Enthusiasm, Knox thinks, only came into its full flower a century after Luther "shook up the whole pattern of European theology." The Quakers were the first of this flowering, and Knox "cannot resist the impression" that there is a direct line of influence upon them from the Anabaptist movement that ended in a bloody civil uprising at Münster 18 years after Luther's Ninety-Five Theses. Early Quaker simplicity strikes Knox as "almost . . . boorishness," and he takes fastidious note of Founder George Fox's "barbarous" style of writing. But he nonetheless pictures Fox as a potent...
...Horticultural Society of New York offers a restful sight for sore eyes with its 43rd annual Fall Flower Show at 160 Central Park South from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. today and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. tomorrow...
...recently fractured thigh, George Bernard Shaw, 94, confided to a visitor: "I don't think I shall ever write anything more." Otherwise, said his doctors, their patient was doing well; he was allowed to leave his bed for 90 minutes a day to take wheelchair tours of his flower beds (see cut) and soak up the autumn...
...same glow animates Peirce's action-crammed paintings of the circus and of county fairs. In his flower pictures, which he paints in as little as 15 minutes, it becomes mere fireworks. And in such conventional efforts as his portrait of Bar Harbor's Dr. Clarence Little holding a mouse, it disappears...
...buffeted Chaplin tries to act with dignity, but somehow he never succeeds. When he is driving a Rolls Royce, he screeches to a stop to race a bum for a cigar butt; yet when he is down and out, he spends his last few cents to buy a flower from a blind girl. There is laughter in "City Lights," but that isn't the sole reason for Chaplin's universal appeal...