Chloe is the last and one of the most evocative of Eric Rohmer’s “Six Moral Tales.” The previous stories include La Collectioneuse, My Night at Maud’s, Clair’s Knee, and two shorter works for television. […]
[…] to present “the wisdom and values of outstanding Latter-day Saint women concerning woman’s role in the modern world.” But this objective was diluted when the contributors were invited to write something “useful, . . […]
Even before his death in 1938 at the age of eighty-five, J. Golden Kimball had become the most talked about of all Mormon churchmen. He was himself cognizant of his reputation, and when a […]
[…] Here we have case studies of how individuals solve or attempt to solve conflicts between these two world views. Some readers may note some factual errors in the responses by one of the scientists. […]
[…] on earth. I can understand how the pioneers of Utah could banish Adam and Eve into a world of sagebrush and endless sky, picturing the plan of salvation as it unfolds in the Salt […]
In 1907 J. J. McClellan, then organist for the Mormon Tabernacle, published a new choral suite under the extravagant title, “Ode to Irrigation.” The first of five choruses described in heavy Victorian prose a […]
[…] in the narrow physical sense in which sex is used and portrayed by a sensual and perverted world which knows little or nothing of its eternal purpose and the possibilities of man’s procreative power” […]
Some may be surprised to learn that the stereotypical image of the hyper-virile nineteenth century Mormon male had a special appeal to the “lost manhood” sector of a thriving American patent medicine industry. There […]
[…] man who attracts and marries only culturally sensitive and beautiful women, Taylor is typecast as a debonair, English gentleman set against the stereotyped frontier of Brigham Young’s Utah. The author would have us believe […]
J. Kenneth Davies, a long-time student of Utah labor history, has been interested in the relationship between the labor movement in Utah and the Mormon Church. Deseret’s Sons of Toil is intended to be […]