Much has been written about the heroines in Virginia Sorensen’s adult fiction, their real-life counterparts, and inspirations. By contrast, relatively little attention has been given to her male characters and the family figures on […]
For more than fifty years, the conflict between Palestinian Arab nationalism and Jewish Zionism has been one of the most protracted and seemingly irreconcilable conflicts in the world. Most people have difficulties discussing this […]
[…] announces she or he is getting married. In the case of writer/actor Nia Vardalos’s paean to Greek- American culture, the results are funny, raucous, even slightly grotesque. Her groom who falls in love with […]
[…] Sherwood Jones, had participated in the invasion. His mother said, “I do not care to read the headlines today. . . . I pray for the safety of my son, but that is not […]
[…] The imagery of the prints came to be about aspects of New York City and the art market after 9/11. The title of the prints is Mono. Lisas and Mad Hatters, also after an Elton […]
[…] (Winter 1987): 105–20; Roger D. Launius, “Politicking against Polygamy: Joseph Smith III, the Reorganized Church, and the Politics of the Anti-Polygamy Crusade, 1860-1890,” John Whitmer Historical Association 7 (1987): 35–44. Alma R. Blair, “The […]
[…] guy, I hope.” “No, Dad.” Erval sat on the couch. “I didn’t know you were interested in politics.” The father propped one leg over the other and settled in, draping his arm along the […]
[…] victims of Nazism by providing an exhaustive historical narrative of the Holocaust and to present visitors with an object lesson in the ethical ideals of American political culture by presenting the negation of those ideals.”
[…] Greek class was awaiting the arrival of our teacher, Tom Rogers popped his head in the doorway and talked to us for ten or fifteen minutes or so. (One of my fellow students must […]
[…] ale. We chatted for awhile; and when they were leaving, Elder Teriyan said, “You look very nice today.” Later I gave Shellie two fifty-cent pieces. A month later, the moment I’d been dreading arrived. […]