[…] priesthood by protesting that they do not want to hold the priesthood because they have no interest in passing the sacrament or performing some other ecclesiastical duty. I will venture a guess that many […]
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In 1969 Edwin B. Firmage taped oral history interviews with his grandfather, Hugh B. Brown. The following essay has been adapted from these memoirs, which will be published by Signature Books in 1988 […]
[…] body power, sense experience, and spirit. The image depicts both human and beyond-human things, in a matter world. At the poem’s ending her mother asks, “Where have you been?” Her answer was not merely, […]
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[…] History, B. H. Robert’s Studies of the Book of Mormon, and Jerald and Sandra Tanner’s The Changing World of Mormonism, I can only wonder why Hutchinson’s work disturbed me so. I believe it is […]
[…] Vietnam. On a dewy summer morning in 1969, I returned from a game of tennis to the news that J.B. had been hit in the head by flying shrapnel. At first, the injury had […]
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[…] essay, unlike personal journals, letters, and oral histories, is not an artless form. It transforms the raw material of personal experience in the double crucible of carefully chosen language and the light of mature retrospection.
[…] the L.A. County spelling bee, she was interviewed by four reporters and appeared on the local TV news. But the headline the next day read, INDIAN STUDENT WINS SPELLING BEE!! with double exclamation marks, […]