[…] of Corinne as a legitimate rival to Salt Lake City was a chore to which the town’s newspapers applied themselves with vigor. For example, in 1870 the editor of the Corinne Reporter boasted that the […]
[…] the original hieratic text, hieroglyphic transcription, both right to left and then, for the convenience of the English reader, from left to right, followed by a phonetic transcription and word by word translation. To […]
[…] hand gestures of snubbing the nose and shooting a gun. There is a sense of violence, a breaking out of conventional images. Perhaps it also gives a sense of the revolutionary, of women who […]
[…] psychology of Melville, the symbolism of Lawrence, the structure of Sartre. For decades and for centuries in English-speaking colleges and universities, certain genres have been traditional, respected and accepted without need of defense: the […]
[…] they who are righteous and serve God, have climbed to those eternities that are to come” (Church News, week ending 23 April I960, p. 3). The Church’s determined reluctancy to endorse either view is […]
[…] the book wants to be more than a typical mystery. As the author goes through the customary search-out-the-suspects-and-discover-the-murderer formula, she superimposes on this structure a gradual recelation of the relationship that has developed over […]
A book as personal as Cheryl Baxter’s The Cocoon can’t help but evoke a very personal response. I share with the main characters of the book a career as a teacher, an abiding interest in…
[…] leadership says.” The authors describe free agency as a process whereby each faithful member has had to search and study, fast and pray until he or she could say that the beliefs and doctrines […]
For much of its history, the Relief Society has been primarily concerned with educating and providing compassionate service to its own members, carrying out instructions passed on from priesthood leaders, keeping its own organization running…
[…] less valuable. That uncertainty is no reason to waste life in shallow, meaningless living. I remember an English poet’s reaction to the bombing of his native London in World War II. He reported that […]