[…] 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 […]
[…] extensively injurious. Such delusions many have hoped and believed, belonged only to the dark ages of the world, or spread only among the illiterate and ignorant. But such is not exactly correct, for many […]
[…] I tried not to intrude on his thoughts which were no longer of me or of this world. Christmas came and most of the children were home. It was a happy time, with a […]
[…] for themselves and others. But I also believed that all the creativity and good will in the world are useless without the freedom to exercise them. Our group decided to vote against the proposal […]
[…] feel the same way about the twentieth century. There is much that is bad in our time: world wars, unresolved conflicts in the Middle East and the South Atlantic, the possibility of a nuclear […]