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...about the Exclusion Crisis and the social problems of the Stuart Restoration I have seen. Its major problem is that it is not so much a play as an essay in social history. It takes the form of a conversation in Isaac Newton's living room, with Newton, the Quaker George Fox, the artist Godfrey Kneller, James II, Charles I and three of his mistresses taking part. They talk about the state of the Anglican Church, the function of the monarchy, and the date of the Creation. This chitchat is followed by a second act in the form...
Last Thursday, Penn walloped Haverford, 10-0, and the Quakers appeared ready to rise in the national standings. But Cornell, led by its All-Ivy forward Herard LaForest, rushed to a 2-1 halftime advantage on Saturday, and the Big Red held on to tie after the Quaker's Steve Crum evened the match...
RICHARD NIXON did not watch television once during the Middle East crisis. He scanned the morning newspapers, but he did not dwell on them. Lingering too long in the headlines, he feared, would raise his blood pressure. "There is an old Quaker saying," he said: " The most important quality in a crisis is peace at the center...
Last Fall, there was a second sit-in demanding a black cultural center at the otherwise quiescent Quaker campus. The sit-in ended peacefully. The center is opening this term...
Died. Noel Haviland Field, 66, sometime U.S. State Department official (1926-36) and a mysterious figure in cold war politics; in Budapest. Urbane and multilingual, the London-born, Harvard-educated descendant of an American Quaker family left State in 1936 to work for the League of Nations, and later became wartime European head of the Unitarian Service Committee's relief activities. Fired from that post because of allegations that he was sympathetic to Communists, Field went to Prague, and three weeks before the beginning of the Alger Hiss trial was abducted to Hungary by Communist agents. He was stigmatized...