Defending Jose
April 1, 2018[…] that would have embarrassed most. He didn’t come close to making it in the door of the city’s large firms. He didn’t even get many second interviews, but he kept looking until a little […]
[…] that would have embarrassed most. He didn’t come close to making it in the door of the city’s large firms. He didn’t even get many second interviews, but he kept looking until a little […]
[…] him and the President, who was Jack to my Dad. The two of them met in Carson City in the early sixties. Senator Kennedy then. Dad and Jack sat under a weeping willow tree […]
[…] in this era of post-agricultural Mormonism. Architecturally, the shop is an old, hand-hewn extension on an ol der frame house jutting out in an ungainly way to the very edge of the road way. […]
[…] if the name Troy had any meaning, and he told me that Troy was a famous old city that the Greeks had laid siege to for many years, without success, till they finally built […]
[…] piercing green eyes and milk-white skin. Her name was Alicia, and she played a violin in the city’s symphony orchestra. When he had enlisted, she screamed at him and cried and beat her fists […]
[…] pines of the hillside taking on the beginning day at their tips. The northern outskirts of the city three miles beyond were beginning to shimmer. His own eyes were extraordinarily keen, more so than […]
[…] radius, Erval motored down a curbless road, a strip of asphalt that wasn’t sure whether it was city or country. Power wash stalls gave way to simple frame houses, ending finally in stands of […]
[…] promoting, and that they were better for having read the book. Although sixteen-year-old Kristine Haynes of Yuba City, California, thought the book would make dull reading for non-Mormons, she wrote, “When his bishopric went […]
[…] A remarkable passage in Parley P. Pratt’s Autobiography comes to mind. The scene is Richmond Jail, in Missouri, in the winter of 1838-1839, Joseph Smith and his fellow prisoners having been subjected for hours […]
[…] This book by a sympathetic outsider concentrates on the westward trek and the founding of Salt Lake City. In language suitable for grade schoolers, the gentility, resourcefulness, and devotion of the Saints are stressed. […]