Word: neither
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governor Dwight Green of Illinois was having a case of actor's nerve. Aware that the Republican Convention would be televised, the silver-haired keynoter tiptoed into a television studio and tried on some faces. He tried eyebrow pencils, lipsticks and Pancake Make-up (neither Max Factor 23 nor Max Factor 29 was quite right, but Max Factor 28, a nice healthy brown, looked wonderful on the handsome governor). Thinking it all over, he settled for a fast barbershop...
...Partita, in D Minor, which was sawed out 17 times in 109 violin recitals. Statistician Perkins found violinists more venturesome than pianists in programming contemporary music, but noted that both outdid orchestras in repeating war horses. The hardest-worked symphony of the season was a surprise: it was neither Beethoven's nor Tchaikovsky's Fifth, but Mozart's Symphony No. 41 (K.551), the "Jupiter...
...purposes of Pendle Hill, the Quaker school and religious retreat near Philadelphia which he and his wife Anna Brinton have managed for the last twelve years. As he spoke, the folding doors opened, and through the somewhat austere room padded an East Indian woman in full native garb. Looking neither to right nor left, she went out another door. Howard Brinton did not glance up or stop talking...
Then the door through which she had disappeared opened, and a young man in blue work shirt and dungarees tramped across the bare floor. Looking neither to right nor left, he vanished beyond the folding doors. A few moments later, Anna Brinton came to the door, leaned in and said: "The FBI man has gone." Howard Brinton went on talking, but suddenly realized what had been said. "What FBI man?"* he asked. But, with Quakerly tact, Anna Brinton had withdrawn...
...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...