[…] than any other state, as a result of the Mormon’s intense interest in visual recordkeeping and of orders for several identical portraits during the days of polygamy. The Salt Lake Theatre, built by Brigham […]
[…] men that they may have faith unto repentance.” In other words, the forgiveness must be accepted in order to be efficacious: “For what doth it profit a man if a gift is bestowed upon […]
[…] Mormons of darkest possible hue passing the sacramental bread and water” (pp. 270-271). Of a far different order is The Mormon Establishment by Wallace Turner. Authored by an Alabama-born New York Times correspondent in […]
[…] 400 So deepseated are the numerical values that the Arabic alphabet, which deviates radically from the Hebrew-Phoenician order of the letters, nevertheless retains the old numerical values tenaciously. For example, y is the last […]
[…] national register of historic places. When that failed, with mere weeks to go, Inez filed a restraining order against the demolition company. A judge overturned it in court a week later. And so, finally, […]
[…] knew. Downstairs in the living room Roger’s, Steve’s, and Kim’s pictures stood on the fireplace mantel, in order of age, all of them smiling (they were Roger’s and Steve’s missionary pictures). In his picture […]
[…] an hundred-fold in gratification. For unlike Walter, who merely tolerated his wife’s sacrificial devotions to a higher order of nutrition, and unlike her children, who, she knew, cheated, Thelma embraced vegetarianism as sincerely and […]
[…] to an emergency room. I told her about how I had startled my colleagues that day by ordering a Bloody Mary. “Virgin,” I had corrected, speaking too loudly, blushing as if I were making […]
[…] begun a month earlier when he had first stepped into Mexico at a crowded and anonymous b order crossing in Juarez. The exotic thrill of a ride with strangers had worn off after the […]
[…] He had four more children, in rapid and furious succession. He began to find satisfaction in the order of things, the way in which the General Handbook of Instructions delineated the bishop’s principles and […]