Book Review - period ended 1.15.2006

Book Review/Quaker Schools/Elitism//Director's Cut/Atlantic Online/New York/NY/USA/6-Jan-2006//... "I don't have much use for Quakers," my mother said. "I'd've liked to've gone to a Quaker school, though, just to beat everybody up. ...

Book Review/Quaker History/Disownment/Zane, Robert/First Chapter/New York Times/New York/NY/USA/1-Jan-2006//... Although Grey believed that his ancestry was Danish, Robert Zane, a Quaker, carried the family name to the New World in 1673 from England, and he resided at ...

Book Review/Quaker History/Business/Miller, Theodore/'Lee Miller'/New York Times/New York/NY/USA/6-Jan-2006//... By the time Elizabeth was born, Theodore Miller was the superintendent of Poughkeepsie's largest employer, the DeLaval Separator Company (its machines separated heavier liquids from lighter ones). An ambitious man of thirty-five who was on his way to becoming one of the town's elite, he had married three years earlier after securing his position at DeLaval's recently enlarged plant on the bank of the Hudson River. Florence Miller, his wife, is not mentioned in the diary entry, as if her part in the arrival of their daughter could not be reckoned among the facts and figures that gave him his grip on the world. Perhaps it was taken for granted. Like most men of his time, Theodore believed that a woman's place was at home, a man's with the new world of science and technology-the forces that enabled entrepreneurs like himself and the country as a whole to move forward.

Theodore always said that he came of a long line of mechanics. A tall, erect man with penetrating blue eyes, he might have stepped out of a Horatio Alger novel. Born in 1872 in the aptly named Mechanicsville, Ohio, he grew up in Richmond, Indiana, at that time the largest Quaker settlement in the country. Although the Millers were not Quakers, he thought well of this sect despite his opposition to formal religion and, in adulthood, his atheism. More important to him than the Society of Friends and the Inner Light were facts. As a youth he had worked in a roller-skate-wheel factory, then a machine shop where he operated lathes. Earning his qualification in mechanical engineering through a correspondence course reinforced the idea that hard work led not only to self-improvement but also to material rewards. . ...

Book Review////Following young girl's tale: Tomboy to sophisticated author/Korea Herald/Seoul/Korea/Asia/14-Jan-2006/Hartford Courant/…Here is what she hated: wearing shoes, skirts or pantyhose (especially the pantyhose); using hairbrushes, toothbrushes or washcloths; going to school; going to Quaker meetings; going to Quaker church camp; and living in a house with rats in the basement and mice in the ceiling. ...

Book Review/Nixon, Richard//The Poker World Is Flat, Part 2/New York Times/New York/NY/USA/6-Jan-2006//…... men played, Nixon's participation could be seen simply as an effort to be a regular guy, but Wills showed how much more to it there was: "His Quaker mother did ... ….DISPLAYING FIRST 50 OF 945 WORDS -As I noted last week, Thomas L. Friedman's best seller ''The World Is Flat'' reveals how a convergence of Internet technology with economic and political developments has leveled the global business playing field. The book rightly emphasizes the role people from India play in this process. Even so, it...