[…] read like case histories. They are presented to make a point rather than to create a believable world. They are trivial in the root sense of that word—crossroads gossip—commonplace, unshaped by the artistic magic […]
[…] No weekends at Tahoe. The sacrifice simple and rinsed. Love before making love. Remember the Third-Party Mediator of this world. Pray often, in your closet. Now go, and be happy. Forever’s a damn long time.”
[…] economic power of the Church and informatively describes present ties with business and civic enterprises. “In the World—Institutional Responses” is a good survey of present structure and programs. The suggestion that as many as […]
On the Tuesday before the 1963 October General Conference, Mr. Stephen Holbrook called on me at the University to tell me that the local NAACP was planning a civil rights demonstration sometime during the […]
[…] of ocean threatening the island become the tides of time and change, threatening to inundate her human world. “—all our certainties have come to grief as we behold the thundering turmoil of white water […]
The magpies sang all morning long that May To lovers in the gum leaves where they lie. Half my heart is half a world away.
[…] Are we to subscribe to the fundamentalist “verbalinspiration” dogma that every word is dictated (in King James English) by the Holy Spirit, and that all of our received traditions and texts are infallible? Ironically, […]
[…] respect each hour. I have learned not to waste my time in futile lethargy. It’s a good world and a good life. .. . I hold it as carefully as mortal fingers will allow.” […]
[…] there. My father had been “Mr. Mormon” in Calgary, and my facile assumption that he would be the stake’s first president was shattered when mom said, with warm pride, that dad was first counselor. […]
[…] sees our current society as in tensely narcissistic. Narcissism becomes the mode of success in the business world as the corporate executive exchanges the tools of concrete achievement for a successful image and the […]