Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Middleweight Champion Tony Zale (see below). Light-Heavyweight Champion Gus Lesnevich...
...Inner Light. The meaning and power of Pendle Hill is not to be found primarily in its activities, but in the spirit that informs them. This spirit, unobtrusive but pervading, is Quakerism. Quakerism is neither Protestant nor Catholic, but a third type of Christianity in which rationalism and mysticism are at one. At the core of its practice is the belief in the Inner Light, or "that of God in every...
...Inner Light is not human conscience or human reason, but is above both, illuminating reason and sensitizing conscience. "It is," Howard Brinton has written in one of the Pendle Hill pamphlets, "that Creative Power which first dawned upon chaos and which draws all things upward into nobler states of being." It is also the source of inspiration of the Bible and of all saints and holy men-the perpetual power which makes possible a continuing revelation. It is for illumination by the Inner Light that Quakers wait in silence in their meetings. For its wider working in the world they...
Until the Inner Light sweeps fragmented modern society into new community, Friends believe that institutions like Pendle Hill are necessary...
...another portrait-a self-portrait-held special interest for the great and famous who had felt the stings and stabs of Topolski's pencil. How did the plump, 41-year-old artist see himself? In the portrait, Topolski pictured himself in a highly dramatic light, modestly or perhaps fearfully shielding his eyes from the glare. "I am," he explained to a critic, "an awed, mystified, laughing and crying member of the humanity that watches and participates in the spectacle of history, but is unable to direct it or reason...