Conservative Quaker

Laurence Wilfred Baker was born in 1917 to conservative Quaker parents in Birmingham. His accountant father had hoped his son would follow in his footsteps but young Laurie graduated from the Birmingham School of Architecture instead. World War II broke out soon after and Baker spent much of it in ...

Critics like to complain that the talk of Inner Light is so much mumbo-jumbo. Roberta Smith, in her review of Turrell's “Aten Reign” for The New York Times teases that, “With his Old Testament white beard and Conservative Quaker background, Mr. Turrell sometimes seems a bit too much like a mystical seer.

Flying Close to the Sun is her attempt to put the explosion into context and to try to explain what led a girl from a conservative Quaker background to participate in armed struggle. The town-house explosion is often cited as the moment when the utopian revolutionaries of the 1960s American counterculture ...

His strict mother instilled conservative Quaker values in him (no swearing, drinking or dancing). When he couldn't afford to go to Harvard (despite earning a scholarship there), he attended Whittier- a local Quaker college where he became class President, started a frat, practiced with the football team, and ...

Adherents of a conservative Quaker branch, their family is the only one in the Grand Rapids Meeting wearing house-on-the-prairie “plain clothes,” and are thus atypical of local Friends. They aim to be more concerned with helping others than with personal appearance or status. “It's a reminder of who you ...