[…] was chosen for this talk, I could think mainly of reasons against it. First of all, I am a striking example of the failed artist. I remembered my first awareness, as a schoolboy in […]
[…] from the earlier edition, quotations in this paper are from the 9th ed. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Steam Printing Establishment, 1874). Elders’ Journal of the Church of Latter Day Saints 1 (July 1838): […]
[…] to Arrington and Haupt’s list: Henry J. Latham (pseudonym Ring Jepson), Among the Mormons (The San Francisco News Company, 1879); Charles Brewer, Retribution at Last: A Mormon Tragedy of the Rockies (Cincinnati: Editor Publishing […]
[…] world.” In other words, definitive statements and absolute truths are never really present in art. Or, as today’s textualist critics might say, texts are infinitely open to infinite readings; texts can neither be determined […]
Several years ago an unsigned Church News editorial on “Two Great I Women” praised Emma Hale and her mother-in-law, Lucy Mack Smith, for their loyalty to Joseph Smith: “They never hesitated to valiantly defend […]
[…] comings and goings to and from various homes in my temporal and spiritual life. Or, as Willi am Kitteridge describes the work of poet Richard Hugo: “He has the courage to acknowledge the continual […]
[…] (really wishing I could knock with the big brass ring hanging from the mouth of a fl aming lion’s head) and waited. The pyramidal, columned edifice, headquarters of the Mother Supreme Council of the […]
[…] dashing moustache. He started in the typesetting business as a boy when it was all hot lead. Today he still sets hot lead in a workshop in his basement. He’s worked nights and weekends […]
[…] son, Arthur, summed up the family’s feelings: “I will tell you why ,” he replied to a newspaper reporter in 1882. “I am the son of my father’s first wife, and had a mother […]
[…] Lady Otomo’s. For Mother ex pressed her longing and loneliness not in a poem or a letter, but in carefully selected personal stories shared over a sink of peach pits, skins, and sterile quart jars.