[…] Our enterprise society is, in reality, a bar gaining society. All the important transactions in the economic world are negotiated, or are bargained. It is a simple fact, worth reiterating, that unless one has […]
Dialogue 3.2 (Summer 1968)101 – 105 Even a casual reading of the Book of Abraham shows that the story refers not so much to unique historic events as to ritual forms and traditions—all these […]
[…] important than was religious belief or membership in the formation of attitudes and behavior toward the secular world. Rural-urban background and general political orientation were especially significant. The chain of causation, however, may not […]
[…] where the water started. The tingling went clear to my skull, and I reached out to a world I had never known, something inviting me, as in my dreams. I left the house four […]
[…] engaged in unhindered discussion, not only in Czech, but in a Babel of tongues—German, Russian, Bulgarian, Polish, English, and French. Even foreign visitors—from the Communist East as well as from the West—seemed unable to […]
[…] where dismay and disillusionment in scribed on paper had committed their author to physical isolation from the world. Momentarily my mind compared these pleasant surroundings with the stark reality of the prison confines and […]
[…] in an interview published in Dialogue for Autumn 1969. Dr. Larson, whom Karl Keller has described as the first “Mormon poet,” also affirmed a hope that “If . . . literary artists . . […]
“I’m sure that you wouldn’t be interested in the only position I have to offer you. We do need a teacher in our Negro school but the problems are insurmountable. The children are undisciplined […]
[…] 6.2 (Summer 1972): 40–47 It isn’t easy these days to be a Momon mother of four. In the university town where I live, fertility is tolerated but not encouraged. Every time I drive to […]
It isn’t that way now. The quiet fields are broken into building lots and the farmers build jet engines in the city and garden with a roto-tiller after work. The old canal is lined […]