[…] 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 […]
[…] liberalism was responsible for most of America’s domestic and international problems. It was, simply, a different political world. The question was no longer whether to attend a meeting of the Young Democrats (which at […]
[…] with his family into a high Church position. What hope does the Church hold for me—for this world or hereafter? Everything is for the married woman: a share of her husband s priesthood. The […]
[…] looked after herself all her life—managed her own money, traveled once to Hawaii alone, once to the World’s Fair in New York, recognized and countered the ploys of those out to trick her. She […]
Ruth Benedict perceptively observed: “ The first lesson of history . . . is that when any group in power wishes to persecute or expropriate another group, it uses as justification, reasons which are […]