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If you ask Miamians today why they came to live there, you will soon realize that the entire city is populated by latter-day Tuttles. By the millions they came, first as tourists to Paradise; once there they fell in love with it and decided to stay. The "snowbird"--a...
On a high mesa framed by a fiery desert sky, the dancers appear: with eerie spectral masks, flesh painted in earthy clay and turquoise colors, and swathed in skins. The kachina priests whirl through the dusty streets of the village clacking tortoise rattles, chanting, waving yucca switches. Hopi legends say...
Daniel F. Boone, 22, fifth-generation descendant of the legendary frontiersman, entering Army basic training: "I consider it an honor to be named Daniel Boone. You can never live under another person's name without building up your own."
But in the claustrophobic tumble of his brain, the world has a habit of collapsing into melancholy. Poor overread Albert warns himself about Keats' "egotistical sublime." His rich interior is forever ababble with Kant and Schopenhauer and his own obsessive, bewildered mutterings. A distant descendant of Leopold Bloom, cousin...
Despite the common heritage, the Reorganized Saints say they are not Mormons. Wallace B. Smith, 51, the fifth direct descendant of the prophet to be president, says the Utah Mormons developed "a whole new theology, which is not orthodox Christianity." The basic disagreements are the Mormon beliefs that Father, Son...