[…] workingman’s hands, waiting at the counter for Paul to come downstairs. On B Street in Salt Lake City, November in the Carter years, everything spelled safety: well-dusted furniture, vacuumed rugs, lint-free drapes, shining stovetop. Remote […]
[…] the most wrinkles in their leather faces could remember when a direct road had connected village to city through the Rikoni field. There was talk that the latest victim still rotted in the center […]
[…] land of materialism, disintegrating families, and glorified vice. Was America—to use language I learned in church—a “ city on a hill,” an example to the big wide world my extended family came from, or […]
[…] the sofa. Returning to bed, he retrieved what he could of the dream, fully expecting to pon der it with amusement while drifting off for another hour or two of sleep. Niles and Thora […]
[…] ears. An ardor fills her breast. Later that day, she discards her diaphragm. John finds it un der a limp lettuce leaf in the trash bin. “What’s the deal, Jackie?” he says. Shocked, she […]
[…] occurred to him that he was bored. He was in the library, perusing a treatise on monarchic democracy written by a senator on the fourth planet from the star Sigma Draconis, when he quite […]
During the 1960 presi dential election campaign both candidates—Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice-President Richard M. Nixon—made appearances in Salt Lake City. Each was greeted cordially by David O. McKay, President of the Church […]
[…] economic impotence and left them only a sexual role. The only available housing is in the central city slums; the jobs they could fill are moving to the suburbs, but transportation systems are designed […]
[…] problem youth and their families. The Outpatient Mental Health Clinic at the L.D.S. Hospital in Salt Lake City provides psychiatric services to ward members who are referred by their bishops. A recent study conducted […]
[…] Documentary History of the Church, Roberts’s Comprehensive History, Joseph Fielding Smith’s Essentials in Church History, Roberts’s The Missouri Persecutions, Outlines of Ecclesiastical History and The Rise and Fall of Nauvoo. Also included are John […]