[…] church affairs in terms of sweetness and light, The Mormon Establishment, in the journalistic tradition, find more news value in clash and conflict than in quiet progress and consensus. Turner’s book comes closer to […]
[…] this appeal for funds was a modest one. Whether any money was sent is doubtful. No other news item is found in Solidarity until the end of the trial. Probably no direct assistance was […]
[…] of Children It is impossible for a parent to avoid giving sex education to his children. I am aware of course that many parents, in and out of the Church, never give their children […]
[…] had published part of it; it was also published serially by the Millennial Star and the Deseret News. Since it was inconveniently scattered in these periodicals, which were virtually unobtainable at the end of […]
[…] generally have zip and vigor, accorded by rock beats and Latin rhythms. The work has a “ today” flavor, with plenty of appeal to the youth of the Church. But today’s sounds become yesterday’s […]
[…] supplies we did not raise ourselves. What would we use for paper? Fresh issues of the Deseret News! This semi-weekly publication was put out by the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City. It was […]
[…] very good, but it is not an epic at all. It is instead a series of short stories that are rather closer to William Dean Howells or Sarah Orne Jewett. The resulting tales come […]
[…] I cannot imagine consigning my bones at last to any other spot than that old graveyard. I am being nostalgic, of course. But what strikes me as I remember back is how little nostalgia […]
In its almost-square format, in its design and layout, its good-sized type and sepia toned pictures on stiff, just about grocery-bag-brown paper, Miller and Moffitt’s Provo is easily the most attractive and readable work […]
[…] few places in America is one confronted with such well-rooted prosperity totally void of slums. … I am forced to admit that the average man in the Mormon state enjoys a higher standard of […]