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Mormonism sprang from the mind of Joseph Smith, who was born in Vermont in 1805, grew up on a Manchester, N.Y. farm, and hated to plow. He was handsome, tall, wavy-haired, had long eyelashes and a faint but unmistakable resemblance to Comic Danny Kaye. He had a fecund imagination and an instinctive sense of drama and command. At 18 he professed to be able to look into a "peep stone" and find hidden gold. He found none...
Said the Australian soldier: "It is all very well to say the Japanese in the Solomons and New Guinea are withering on the vine, but they take a bloody lot of withering." Many a "Digger" will swear that the fanatical, agricultural, fecund Jap, cultivating vegetable gardens in inaccessible jungle clearings, not only is waxing fat and happy but is intermarrying with natives to raise a new race of Bushido boys...
Martinu's music got a fine critical reception. Though he inherits the great Czech tradition of Bedrich Smetana and Antonin Dvorak, Martinu does not work in their sunlit, melodically fecund vein. The emotional tone of his music is measured, but it has genuine dignity, drama and decided individuality. Softspoken, shy, 52-year-old Martinu grew up in the little Czech town of Policka, where his father was a shoemaker, played the violin for a decade with the famed Czech Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague. In 1923 he went to Paris, stayed for nearly 20 years. A very serious...
...Family: "In the family the nation finds the natural and fecund roots of its greatness and power. ... A so-called civil progress would ... be unnatural which - either through the excessive burdens imposed, or through exaggerated direct interference - were to render private property void of significance, practically taking from the family and its head the freedom to follow the scope set by God for the perfection of family life...
...Land: "As a rule, only that stability which is rooted in one's own holding, makes of the family the most vital and most perfect and fecund cell of society." Equally emphatic was Pius XII in his 1942 Christmas broadcast...