Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howard Brinton is a friendly little man with a fuzz of silvery hair and a serene face in which a profound wisdom of the spirit does not imply a complete innocence of the world. One day last week he was discussing the nature and 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...
...could not fail to sense that Friends at Pendle Hill were infused with a true Quaker spirit, relaxed but reverent, and that in their three chief activities-worship, study and work-they were seeking solutions for three of the great problems of the age: the alienation of class from class in society, the alienation of the individual from the community, the alienation of man from...
Friends like Douglas Steere, Howard Brinton and Gilbert Kilpack. These groups, composed of Quakers' and non-Quakers, come together in spring and fall to withdraw from the world into the silence where they seek the frontier of the spirit. The retreat usually begins on Saturday and ends on Monday. During that time the group worships and communes together. Conversation is shunned, and the silence is broken chiefly to deliver the burden of a testimony to the group or to pray...
...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...
...Andre Fontaine was fired. Office gossip had it that he was sacrificed because of an article on the U.S. power shortage (Our Lights Are Going Out) that brought complaints from General Electric and power companies. Fontaine had thought that Cottier's should have some of its old crusading spirit. The brass favored the editorial line of least resistance (Collier's safe-&-sane editorials are still the spare-time work, but not always the echo, of the New York Daily News's Reuben Maury...