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March 22, 2018[…] had barely sent the youngest of their two daughters off to first grade when she got the news and wept all weekend. And Latham had once owned a noisy little Yamaha back in the […]
[…] had barely sent the youngest of their two daughters off to first grade when she got the news and wept all weekend. And Latham had once owned a noisy little Yamaha back in the […]
[…] kitchen counter. Ada took the bowl. “And I brought those tickets I promised. I don’t want anybody breaking the bank or anything.” “Oh, we won’t be needing them.” “Really? Well, good, you got your […]
[…] he was capable of writing. The scenes he presently looked upon, both inside and outside the bus—his world, the world of now—were an infinity away from the world that had inspired all those cowboy […]
[…] salary employment replaced the gradual transition from childhood to adulthood to age with fixed points of labor market entry and exit. Youth and age became economic burdens. Youth could be written off by society […]
[…] Valley of Tomorrow and Strangers on Earth are moving to fill a very real need for suitable reading for young adults. Most books for younger readers are appropriate for all children, including Mormons. But […]
[…] and Thriving.” Honolulu: A Topical Tropical Magazine, II (October, 1967), 27. Glaser, Lynn. “The Mormons’ Anti-bank.” Numismatic News, January 1, 1968, p. 6. The Kirtland Safety Society. Godfrey, Kenneth W. “The Road to Carthage […]
[…] esthetic can serve religion and how a rebirth of the imagination can and should serve the Church today. For if anything would militate against acceptance of an emerging Mormon literature it would be our […]
[…] of his boardinghouse window. He wrote hard and he read hard in college, and there were two English professors of great encouragement to him—A. N. Sorensen and Ira Hayward. And Dave didn’t disappoint them, […]
[…] thought was that Carleton and St. Olaf religion professors were reacting to their understanding of Mormon this- worldiness: our great optimism about man and his God-like potential; our rejection of original sin; our affirmation […]
[…] for what was best. And now, the morning of September 26, 1876, my husband, scanning the morning news, suddenly read aloud, “Tomorrow morning Utah students take the train for eastern colleges along with missionaries […]