Word: brigham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Year" in 1965, who believed that "Youngsters expect a little discipline," neither spared the rod nor spoiled the brood of five boys and a girl, saw her sons become president of the University of Utah, vice president of Western Electric, vice president of Sandia Corp., professor of mathematics at Brigham Young University, and a top researcher for NASA; of liver disease; in Salt Lake City...
Sprawled along the Charles River near Harvard and M.I.T., Boston University has had little of the national attention paid to its more famous neighbors. Nonetheless, with 15,031 full-time students, B.U. is now the nation's third largest private university, after Brigham Young and N.Y.U. Last week, to succeed retiring President Harold Case, Boston U.'s trustees named Arland Christ-Janer, 44, who for the past six years has been president of Iowa's Cornell College...
...Deseret News to the Relief Society Magazine, a women's monthly-which read like house organs and propagate what one Dialogue editor calls "the myth of the unruffled Mormon," impervious to doubt. In reality, argues Dialogue's book-review editor, Richard L. Bushman, a history professor at Brigham Young University, plenty of young Mormons "have become estranged from the church for intellectual reasons...
...more interested in conversion than in genuine dialogue with other Christians, while Roman Catholic Mario S. De Pillis argued that Mormon histories of their church have been less than thorough in explaining its origins. In the 145-page second issue, published this month, Political Science Professor Louis Midgley of Brigham Young University presents a surprisingly sympathetic Mormon criticism of the late Paul Tillich's vision of a nonpersonal God. In another article, Political Scientist J. D. Williams candidly reports that the Mormon hierarchy appeared ready to endorse the John Birch Society earlier this year, but after pressure from...
...KUTV put together a documentary on local vice, including interviews with prostitutes, pimps, addicts and juvenile delinquents. So thoroughly was the seamy side of the city uncovered that its Mormon population was shocked. The show is now rerun regularly in sociology courses at the universities of Utah and Brigham Young...