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Herrymon Maurer is a concerned man, and for Quakers the word concern has a special meaning. Quakers commonly share their concerns with the Meeting to the end that something be done. Herrymon Maurer, 39, a onetime teacher in West China and onetime FORTUNE editor, is a Quaker from Sewickley, Pa., and he voices a passionate concern in his sixth book, What Can I Know? (Harper...
...writes as if he might be speaking in Meeting: in a rush and freshly, with a hot honesty that will carry many a reader unsuspecting into deep waters. For Quaker Maurer's concern is that human beings think less, talk less and write less about God and the universe, and start experiencing them...
...Germain-des-Pres or Bloomsbury much of this might be accepted as existentialism. In the stubborn Quaker tradition that distrusts abstractions and relies on ad hoc "leadings," Maurer fights shy of any such cerebral pigeonholes. The very word idea, he holds, has the makings of snare and delusion: "The danger is that one will sit down in the world of ideas and go into a sleep so bewitchingly full of busy fantasy as to make anyone certain that he is clear-mindedly awake. The only chance of staying awake is to take with one into the world of ideas...
Businessman Stuart, president of Quaker Oats Co.,* liked the house and the appointment. Last week his name went to the Senate. The son and grandson of Canadians, he has been an inveterate tourist in Canada, has made a 1,000-mile pack trip across the Canadian Rockies, fished for salmon in Newfoundland, paddled a canoe north to Hudson...
Stuart's grandfather, founder of Quaker Oats Co., emigrated to Canada from Scotland; Stuart's father was born at Embro, Ont., later moved to Chicago. Young Stuart's first paid job (17½? an hour), after he left Princeton in 1906, was sweeping the floors of the Quaker mill at Peterboro, Ont. Later he returned to the U.S. to work his way up to the $80,000-a-year top executive...