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...Like latter-day Ponce de Leons, however, these women are watching their dream of eternal youth fade away. A large, federally funded clinical trial, part of a group of studies called the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), has definitively shown for the first time that the hormones in question--estrogen and progestin--are not the age-defying wonder drugs everyone thought they were. As if that weren't bad enough, the results, made public last week, proved that taking these hormones together for more than a few years actually increases a woman's risk of developing potentially deadly cardiovascular problems...
James Muller, the founder of Voice of the Faithful, is a professorial type who portrays himself as a latter-day Catholic Thomas Paine. The lay people, he would say in his addresses to fellow rebels this spring, were plagued by "donation without representation." The press and legal frenzy over the scandals were like "the Boston Tea Party," and Voice meetings resembled "the Constitutional Convention." Said Muller: "Two hundred years ago, Americans gave representative democracy to the secular world. We're now attempting to do the same thing again--this time for the church...
...many materialists, you see, long ago came to terms with the fact that reasonable people still believe in an almighty deity who authored earth and heaven. They accept this strangely persistent fantasy largely because they assume, perhaps rightly, that most of Harvard’s Christians are really latter-day deists, conceiving of God as a distant, prehistoric clockmaker, setting the world in motion and then stepping back, safely out of the picture. They even accept the persistence of prayer with good grace, acknowledging its much-touted psychological benefits while assuming that no sane person would actually expect...
...getting falling-down drunk as a feminist statement, but plenty find drinking a good way to get along with the guys. In a corporate culture in which deals are often closed over multiple martinis or glasses of Merlot, the lone sipper of club soda risks looking like a latter-day Carrie Nation. And while the feminist foremothers aimed to make men more like women--nicer, that is, and sober--today's alpha gals aspire to resemble the men, warts and hangovers included...
Hinckley, Mormons believe, is in direct contact with God and so presumably is party to the whole plot. Thus the faithful paid close attention last July when the head of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints stood up to make his annual speech for Pioneer Day. But instead of a soothing homage to Mormon virtues and achievements in the 154 years since the pioneers settled Utah, Hinckley, 91, gave the world's 11 million Mormons a lecture on being good neighbors...