South of Olympic
April 19, 2018[…] knew she would appreciate the nylons my husband had picked up for me at the local twenty-four-hour market (where they also book races and write bail bonds). Unable to find the specified beige or […]
[…] knew she would appreciate the nylons my husband had picked up for me at the local twenty-four-hour market (where they also book races and write bail bonds). Unable to find the specified beige or […]
[…] In the theater, themes of emptiness and absurdity have replaced earlier “neurotically” conflicting themes of great drama. Politics has also become a spectacle. In sports, cooperation and loyalty among team members and competition against […]
[…] (Oct. 1958) : 644-48; Jan Thompson, “Prepare for Life, Not Just Marriage” (interview with Susan Memmot), Church News, 18 July 1981, p. 7. Samuel W. Richards, “The Duty of Marriage,” The Contributor 13 (1892): […]
[…] when Mormons drew a large share of editorial venom. Motivated by similar studies of blacks, Jews, and native Americans, Bunker and Bitton set out to reveal how selectively and one-sidedly the nation’s editors portrayed Mormons […]
[…] itself had generated the courage, energy, and enthusiasm required to convert faith into practice. Similarly my beliefs today are the strong but silken threads, woven into the fabric of my experience, that help me […]
[…] a priest. Only six years earlier, the United States had been engaged in a “splendid little war” on the largest Carribean isl and — at the enthusiastic urging of William Randolph Hearst and Teddy Roosevelt.
[…] down for lack of funding, 12,000 people turned out for a hastily organized protest rally. The local newspaper, the Tri-City Herald, often runs pro-nuclear editorials. Sometimes when I read stories about leaks in Hanford’s […]
[…] challenge facing these writers is considerable. The majority of published works in the field of Mormon literature today consists of cliches borrowed from the larger world of bad literature. This cheap and easy fiction, […]
[…] Harris, was Ute and my grandmother, Ivy Mae Harris, was anglo, a second-generation Latter-day Saint of pioneer stock. My father’s grandmother, Great-grandmother Mary Reed Harris, said her own grandmother had been baptized by Brigham […]
[…] diversity of opinion and action within the leadership and among the member ship. In religion as in politics I share the faith of Jefferson, who said in his First Inaugural Address, “Error of opinion […]