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...Puritans weren't alone in their suspicion of the icon. The next wave of settlers in the Northeast, the Quakers, led by William Penn, despised most arts. Music was a distraction, poetry (beyond the simplest hymns) a snare. So the lack of Quaker painting is hardly a surprise, though some artists--most conspicuously Benjamin West--came from Quaker families and left the faith. The only painter who lived and died a Quaker was the Philadelphia "primitive" Edward Hicks (1780-1849), and he felt moral qualms about...
...usually enjoy your cartoons; I find them insightful and humorous. The cartoon of Monday May 5, however, "Why women weren't on the Apollo moon missions," offended me. Women today and throughout history have been denied the right to participate in innumerable endeavors, the space program included, because of stereotypical and wrong assumptions about their physiological needs...
Last Friday night the cast and crew of 'Rumors' faced a gag they weren't really prepared for. As one of the characters was walking offstage, the door he was leaving through fell completely off its hinge, leaving him turning the knob on a large piece of plywood. Nevertheless, the cast coped well, even ad-libbing lines about the dismembered door. By the second act the door had been firmly reattached, and the cast resumed acting out what it had rehearsed...
...walk out the door, but he kept a tight grip on the 72 he valued most: senior Peruvian officials, Fujimori's brother Pedro, foreign diplomats and the Japanese ambassador. The Peruvian President assumed that he would eventually have to fight to get them back. "The talks with the guerrillas weren't going to go anywhere," says a high-ranking Peruvian military official. "As soon as the tunnel and the commandos were ready, so was he." Britain, Germany and Israel offered to help, as did the U.S., but all were turned down. "There are some things we Peruvians can do better...
...depression, I didn't mean they walked around with their heads hanging low and with a glum look on their faces. In fact, it was amazing how quickly they could appreciate why the spacecraft hadn't come: because they and/or the students or the world weren't ready yet. "SAWYER" Westchester County, New York...