In an earlier best-seller, Loose Change, Sara Davidson documented the impact of the Sixties on her fictionalized self and two other intelligent females. Real Property moves on into the Seventies, but not in novel […]
The major theme of Eugene England’s biography is the flowering of Brigham Young’s personality. His strict Methodist upbringing suppressed Brigham’s natural forces and made him a watchful, cautious, somewhat skeptical young man. The […]
She lives on a street of white haired men with time for hosing the cracks. She goes to funerals amid people whose names she cannot remember,
If only there were daisies here in tin cans. These flowers are too nice: ivory-tongued anthurium, gladiola mouths holding their long, red O’s while Sister Smith whispers, “Aren’t the roses
[…] it is supplemental, it is there to flesh out the individuals and events of Orrin Porter Rockwell’s world” (p. xiii). These lengthy footnotes give added evidence of Schindler’s meticulous research but often add to […]
[…] something for nothing. Utah is un fortunately known as one of the fraud capitals of the English-speaking world. We tend to hope that pyramid schemes and Ponzi maneuvers are legitimate vehicles on the road […]
[…] Cast out of Hill town. Being “perhaps the fox” became sufficient reason to be returned into the world and company of the fox. At one point a rabbit asked: “But if these foxes do […]
[…] prevented by wise and disciplined living” (p. 3), he for gets Job, the Poles and Jews in World War II, and the innocents of every age who suffer death and pain along with the guilty. […]
[…] covers the sensitive and important problems that con fronted the Church as it sought to become a world-wide denomination. Gary L. Bunker and Davis Bitton, in capturing The Mormon Graphic Image, 1834- 1914, have […]
Like the sound of laying the warp, whispered names resonate within the grained, muraled, marble and curtain walls of this holy place, and veil the light and air with your form, hands