[…] of his boardinghouse window. He wrote hard and he read hard in college, and there were two English professors of great encouragement to him—A. N. Sorensen and Ira Hayward. And Dave didn’t disappoint them, […]
[…] come too because they had a roommate, and he understood the German words mixed in with the English. The patched and broken windows glimmered in the weapons carrier headlights, and the moon shone down […]
[…] in his mortal condition and our concept of Adam as a great hero, who introduced us into a world of moral choice—according to God’s plan, not against it. The Book of Mormon states that Adam […]
[…] wives and disillusioned husbands, both inside and outside the Church. Although our own marriage certainly has its share of frustrations, my husband George and I were at least quite sure of what we were […]
[…] for what was best. And now, the morning of September 26, 1876, my husband, scanning the morning news, suddenly read aloud, “Tomorrow morning Utah students take the train for eastern colleges along with missionaries […]
[…] allusions to South Carolina’s rebellion against the tariff and Nat Turner’s slave rebellion, both then in the news, but as it looks farther ahead the language becomes so broad that it cannot yet be […]
[…] cultural mainstream. Although successful missions were established among the Indians and especially among the Polynesians, it was nevertheless the English-speaking white Americans who gave the Church its leadership and set the tone of its culture.
[…] Utah Municipalities and Counties.” Arizona State University, 1971. McLaws, Monte B. “Early Mormon Journalism and the Deseret News, 1830-1898.” University of Missouri, 1970. Mauss, Armand Lind. “Mormonism and Minorities.” University of California, Berkeley, 1970. […]
[…] who read a great deal and learned readily. I grew up in a family that spoke good English. I think I had all the advantages I would have had if my parents had had […]
[…] informing his sons of events at first hand before they could read about them in the Deseret News, which the father faithfully had follow them wherever they went: news about crops, mining, new settlements, […]