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...Lynds (he died in 1970, she is retired) found a work-oriented town where "getting on" was important, as were self-reliance, civic pride, patriotism and Christian fervor. So did the Middletown III researchers of today. Caplow and Teammate Howard Bahr of Brigham Young University asked Muncie high school students of 1977 the same public opinion questions the Lynds asked 1924 students, and got much the same answers. Last year 50% of the students agreed that "the Bible is a sufficient guide to all problems of modern life," 78% said the U.S. is "unquestionably the best country in the world...
...Lynds reported that brains were considered unimportant in a Muncie woman, by the time of their second book, Munsonians had dropped their opposition to working women and had begun to educate girls for good jobs. Now, says a member of the Middletown III team, C. Bradford Chappell of Brigham Young, Middletown daughters "are better educated and in higher-status occupations than either of their parents." Teen-age girls, homebodies in 1924, now spend about as much time away from their parents as teen-age boys...
Boston Hospital for Women, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Robert B. Brigham Hospital will be providing the shots...
...differences stem from the foundation stone of the faith, those unique Mormon scriptures, which are the subject of deep but carefully concealed doubts among some church intellectuals at Brigham Young University and at Mormon "institutes" on secular campuses. Smith said he dug up golden tablets at Hill Cumorah near Palmyra in 1827 and dictated their contents to a scribe before they were taken up into heaven. The result was the Book of Mormon, an account of two migrations of ancient Jews to the Americas, and of a ministry by Jesus in the New World. These Jews built elaborate civilizations before...
...vision: "The Saviour said, go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature, and that's what we have been working toward." The Mormons have a long way to go, but as a result of Spencer Kimball's innovations, new classes and cultures may yet penetrate Brigham Young's mountain-ringed fastness...