Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rumor mill in Salt Lake City was abuzz about another, more exotic, possibility. Christensen and Gary Sheets, both Mormon bishops (local church leaders), were involved in publication of a controversial historical document that challenges the authorized version of the origins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1983 Christensen paid a reported $40,000 to Mark Hofmann, 30, a shadowy, highly successful dealer in Mormon documents, for an 1830 manuscript known as the "White Salamander Letter." Written by a disciple of Mormon Founder Joseph Smith, it says Smith's finding of the Book of Mormon came...
...sophisticated, authors in England and the U.S. felt less obliged to offer fiction in the guise of fact. But the tradition of the imaginary autobiography has continued to attract notable writers from Dickens and Twain to Salinger and Bellow. In the right hands, the old trick of the sham document can still inspire belief and wonder. The Tree of Life comes from the right hands...
Last week, however, the battleground finally shifted. Victor Karpov, the chief Soviet arms negotiator, sat down at the banquet-size table in the Botanic Building, the drab headquarters of the U.S. arms-control delegation across from Geneva's tidy botanical gardens, and began reading slowly from a lengthy document. For half an hour the Soviet negotiator droned on, speaking in the argot of nuclear weaponry. His monologue was technical and arcane, yet it was immensely important. At the least, it promised to deliver arms control from the realm of rhetoric to the real business of negotiated give-and-take over...
...passed since a committee of five Roman Catholic bishops released the first draft of a pastoral letter that denounced the "massive and ugly" failures of the American economy and called for a bold new effort to aid the poor both in the U.S. and abroad. Impassioned and provocative, the document aroused a torrent of reaction that ran to 10,000 pages of comments from Catholics and non-Catholics alike. While many liberals praised the letter as a blueprint for economic justice, conservatives complained that it was an unjustified assault on the foundations of capitalism...
...more generous to opposing viewpoints. But it does not soften the tone or thrust of the bishops' main message. The new draft, like the first, calls the presence of widespread poverty in the midst of American plenty "a social and moral scandal that must not be ignored." The document notes that 14.4% of the U.S. population lives below the official poverty line, which, for a family of four, is set at an income level...