[…] odds with a provincially and religiously conservative administration. Taking advantage of a summer internship in New York City between my sophomore and junior years, I experienced for the first time the contagious energy of […]
[…] LDS. The non-Mormons (“gentiles”) were dominated by the presence of mining interests, lawyers, and Protestant clergymen—notably Park City mining magnate Thomas F. Kearns, attorney Dennis Eichnor, and the Rev. George P. Miller, a Methodist […]
[…] the morning, you wake, assemble your things, and nod the briefest of farewells before disappearing into the city. I have had, as a coupe mate, a fat, middle-aged businessman who talked constantly, boasting of […]
[…] gone to sleep several nights thinking of those houses under water, full of water. But their cul de sac was well above the nearest flood zone; nothing to fear. She woke shaking, to Ryan […]
[…] Seven Speculations of the Times (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975), 53. Margaret Young, Salvador (Salt Lake City: Aspen Books, 1992). Ibid., 71. Ibid. Orson Scott Card, Lost Boys (New York: Harper Collins, 1992). […]
[…] pretending to be Las Vegas. Spencer is privy to that little known fact. He writes about Sin City with proficiency, wry wit, and sleight of hand. A Twenty-One dealer at heart. Maybe growing up […]
[…] mysterious. Meanwhile the corps of 60,000 plus Mormon missionaries outstrips in raw numbers that of every other de nomination. Into this gap sociologists Gary and Gordon Shepherd have walked. They have published a wonderful […]
[…] Polyandry might be easier to understand if one viewed these marriages to Smith as a sort of de facto divorce with the first husband. However, none of these women divorced their ‘first husbands’ while […]
[…] life. In coming to Rostovna Donu, I felt I was being born into a new world. I de pended upon my companions to prepare strange, new food for me and to take me wherever […]
[…] to invest much because it might all be taken again. That was the attitude of the genie de mal vivir. the people of the bad way of life. It showed in their dirty, sun-callused […]