[…] occurred three years later, which upsets Joseph’s recital of facts. Although not intending a foray into the world of polemics, Dr. Backman presents much evidence that bears upon items one and three, for those […]
[…] you this: if you write this book, it should be honest. And how would you like the world to know that your father died in debt!” Now I knew the very worst thing. He […]
[…] – have been where we both had deep intellectual curiosity. Few women are encouraged to explore the world of ideas, and I am happy in their company for only limited periods of time; the […]
[…] she did not know what single women would do in eternity, but she would be willing to share her husband, dead for several years, with women like me. I don’t know what to think […]
It was nearly seven. Uncanny the way she could sense that particular hour even without looking and even on days that were not Thursday. The library was quiet as always. The afternoon people had been…
[…] expression of their faces is beautiful to behold. They are at peace with each other and the world. Me and Mine: The Life Story of Helen Sekaquaptewa, as told to Louise Udall. Tucson, Arizona: […]
This year October takes us sudden, breaks
The honeylocust leaves with a parching frost
And casts them, ashen green and clattering, down
On sidewalks still glaring as white as summer.
Somewhere, deep in the background of the world, Lost in this traffic of hurrying men, A forgotten bush burns vaguely. No one turns aside to see,
[…] historians: Brigham H. Roberts, who was then editing Joseph Smith’s History of the Church; Andrew Jenson, whose world travels in the interest of Church history had assured the acquisition of vast amounts of historical […]
Perhaps the most difficult kind of analysis that scholars may presume to make is that of presenting attitudes of people toward various ideas. Any poll can be affected by weakness in the sampling technique, by…