[…] even ask, why is there an official church silence with respect to participation in this war which today is so unnecessary, so terrible in its conduct and character, whose enormities and excesses are so […]
Among the issues which interest and divide men, none, with perhaps the exception of religion, seems so conducive to the use of labels as politics. Each phase of American political life has had […]
I look around me and I laugh. I am caught by the interplay of light and color upon the chandelier. From long ago I see a child’s triumph. In one dangling crystal I see […]
[…] cards.” The teacher interrupted the fifth-grade boy who was reading “Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingh am,” and took the cards away. If she hadn’t taken the cards away though, I might never […]
[…] chief functions of the novel.” Thus historical figures who otherwise might be flat and uninteresting come a live in the hands of the skilled writer. Taylor readily admits that he is not writing as […]
[…] These letters amply provide the stuff from which his family role may be portrayed. Conversely when he lived at home family relations were conducted viva voce, leaving only family tradition and various less detailed […]
Asia is a l and of revolution, a land where a complex of revolutions are inter related in such a way that one phase is not understood independent of the others, nor of the […]
[…] As Mormons, for example, church members share traditional anecdotes about church leaders (such as J. Golden Kimball stories), a specialized vocabulary (“Jack Mormon,” etc.), a body of orally transmitted songs and stories—in short, folklore. […]
[…] important personal quests. Win If You Will, like a series of good Priest’s Quorum Meetings, presents outst anding athletes, scientists, businessmen and others who describe the self-discipline, persistence and allegiance to Gospel principles that […]
[…] by accentuating the positive, even if it proves impossible to eliminate the negative in discussing William Roper’s and Leonard Arrington’s biographical study of William Spry, Utah’s Governor during the period from 1909 to 1917. […]