[…] the opportunity to do something of consequence, to function in an approved non-ornamental and non-trivial way by writing a novel to arouse the conscience of America. So every novel, no matter how sensationalist, could […]
[…] is a scholastic prize. For $100 a year, some high school senior who had excelled in creative writing or community service could have his name on the graduation program, a nice little article in […]
[…] The comment about the Relief Society Magazine hurt; for the first time I recognized a slur on women’s writing as a slur on me. So it was that my first feelings of feminist outrage were […]
[…] Emma, interviewed by her son Joseph Smith HI concerning important events in early Church history, explained, “In writing for your father I frequently wrote day after day, often sitting at the table close by […]
[…] not expressed itself as to birth control” (Widtsoe to Klinger). Later that year he published an important essay on birth control in the Improvement Era forthrightly entitled “Should Birth Control Be Practiced?” It was […]
[…] are friendly to science? For one thing, we can follow Eyring’s example, explaining science and speaking and writing positively about it for Mormon audiences. Reflections of a Scientist , a masterful compilation of some […]
[…] put me in touch with the people and ideas I was missing. Because of DIALOGUE, I began writing again. By the time I became the journal’s editor in the basement of our home, our […]
[…] I can say. Informed discussion ought also to take into account a broad spectrum of femi nist writing on the issue; my acquaintance with it is still peripheral. What I can do is respond […]
[…] and policies change and the messages of the Spirit are not always patently decipherable. Length of missionary service changes from twenty-four months to eighteen, then back to twenty-four, and Young Men’s and Young Women’s […]
[…] I was calling to you for help, and you stood off in a corner smiling and laughing, writing it all down, as if—you were writing the script.” “Hey, it’s only a dream.” He snuggled […]