[…] with the struggle for survival. They are valuable for their history of the rivalry between the Deseret News and the Tribune, as well as for accounts of the rise and fall of several now […]
Let us begin 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…
More and more acts of poetry are being committed by Mormons these days. Before me are four volumes attesting to a variety of interests and a variety in printing and format. I am happy to…
The common cripple to the south of Palmyra Dreamed God the Father, the Savior Son, And, though clerical tradition predetermine his doom, Can never, never, never Search Kidd’s treasure again.
[…] and gradually the old enthusiasm and fulfillment returned and increased. I’m still looking for answers, but my search, now sustained by a secure knowledge that God is really there and that He really does […]
In one of the more imaginative chapters of that remarkably imaginative trilogy Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien describes an Entmoot, a conference of giant tree-like creatures called Ents. Sam and Merry, two…
[…] daughter—in explanation of her name) Balance is what we mean the name to tell her when she’s suckled news into her brain that birth knits her into the nervous system of the spastic, plastic planet,
Paradise lost, according to Marcel Proust, is the only real paradise. Proust’s lost Eden was Illiers-Combray, a village whose medieval church tower and encircling wall gave to his childhood, by their great age, a sense…
[…] a brief auto biography of Charles E. Johnson. William H. Smart William B. Smart, of the Deseret News, has recently contributed diaries (1886- 1898) of his grandfather William H. Smart (1862-1937) to be added […]
[…] me a $200 a year raise. Dialogue: Did you have other responsibilities at Dixie than just teaching English? Brooks: I was made Dean of Women when I got back from Columbia, I didn’t know […]