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...know what's going on in regard to Pennsylvania's football team. Information about the team that crumbled in the second half of last year's campaign has been non-existent. The facts alone, such as the graduation of Adolph "Beep-beep" Bellizeare and a number of other Quaker standouts, would seem to make the Philadelphians a losing bet in this year's race...
Penn has had excellent teams the last two years, but the people who made the Red and Blue go are gone: halfback Adolph Bellizeare and quarterback Marty Vaughan have graduated, leaving the offense without its explosiveness. The defense, never a Quaker strength, should be porous once again...
...often just licentious, not in any way a noble and moral affair as it had been among many of the Greeks of, say, Plato's time." Some argue that today's homosexuals, if not noble, are often truly loving. The British Society of Friends in its book Toward a Quaker View on Sex maintains that "it is the nature and quality of a relationship which matters. Homosexual affection can be as selfless as heterosexual affection and therefore we cannot see that it is in some way morally worse...
Hicks had a difficult upbringing. His father was a Crown official in Pennsylvania who lost his fortune after the British defeat. His mother died before he was two. Hicks was consigned to the care of a Quaker farmer named Twining (one of his best paintings is an evocation in retrospect of the old Twining farm). At 13 he was apprenticed to a coachmaker: a coarse life in which he was, as he later lamented, "introduced by lechers and debauchees into the worst of company and places." One Sunday morning, suffering from a bad hangover, he blundered into a Quaker meetinghouse...
...rose in a meeting (in the Quaker meeting, a member is expected to speak only when he feels "moved"), and his speech was so exalted that the congregation declared he should speak in other places to spread the Quaker word. He did. But he continued to make his living as a painter of tavern signs, carriage decorations and furniture. In 1825, when he was 45, his faith and his painting skills found common ground. He would paint his (and the Quaker) vision of the Peaceable Kingdom. In this vision, Quaker Leader William Perm became the epitome of the peacemaker, specifically...