If you have never read a poem by Bob Christmas, this book is your chance to catch up. Take it. If you have read poems by Bob Christmas, this book is your chance to […]
[…] usage beyond the semantic limits set by lexicographers. Whatever else, Johnson’s Hesiod is certainly the most readable English version available, notwithstanding cavils I have with transliteration irregularities and idiosyncratic alliteration patterns. Next is Kristen […]
[…] This term, coined by Harvey Cox, expresses (in “secular”) a “this worldness”—meaning that the work of the world must be done by man himself, and (in “city”) all historical and Utopian dreams for the […]
[…] observed that Mormons “. . . are clannish and well ordered,” and thus have difficulty in “ breaking away or non-conforming, even if they want to.” This suggestion of backwardness in social change illuminates […]
This poignant observation by Dale L. Morgan was written even before World War II, and the erstwhile Utah sons and daughters spoken of are themselves now grandparents. Moreover, it is doubtful that anyone any […]
[…] Nephite and Lamanite territory. This view is still widely held; within the last few months, the Church News identified the estimated 177 million Indians of North and South America and Polynesians as Lamanites.[5] This […]
[…] the compounds of carbon, organic chemistry, and quantitative analysis. Stu dents had to keep current with Chemical News and The American Chemist, which was co-edited by William H. Chandler of Lehigh, a man from […]
[…] to divulge my name. “Mr. Huelett,” who published only one poem under that name in a Nauvoo news paper, is presumably Sylvester Huelett, an associate of Eliza’s during her stay with her sister Leonora […]
[…] manifestations. Deep in the Mormon psyche is an attraction to prophetic posturing and swagger. In particular, Joseph Smith, Jr., and Brigham Young are icons who have come to dominate the Mormon world like mythical colossuses.
[…] (100). The authors’ representation of Adam Smith is highly selective and misleading. Thus their focus on free market was a very minor aspect of Smith’s Wealth of Nations and does not really correspond closely to […]