Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Straws. Steinar of Hlidar, a typical Laxness peasant-hero, grows restive with life on his small farm, where he works on a stone wall begun by his greatgrandfather and regales his children with fairy tales. He longs for spiritual challenge. A Mormon missionary, one of many who came to Iceland in the late 19th century, provides it. The missionary urges him to seek a paradise on the "other side of the moon" in Utah, where great principles are lived out in hardship and suffering: "You must renounce home and family and possessions. That is how to be a Mormon...
...Romney won because he appeared to be a prophet at a time when Michigan desperately needed one. His victory was one of charisma, that indefinable quality of leadership, force and spiritual magnetism that defies pat explanations. The fact that he is a Mormon-and president of the Detroit Stake (district) of the Mormon church-had much to do with it. For devout Mormons count as cardinal principles of their religion individual responsibility and dedication to public service...
When the football players at Brigham Young University, a big Mormon school in Provo, Utah, huddle before the game, they do not pray for victory. "We just pray," says a player wryly, "that we'll come out in one piece." For 21 seasons, the toothless Cougars were the pussycats of the Skyline Conference, winning only 69 of 203 games against such middling opposition as Wyoming, Montana, Utah State. B.Y.U. now belongs to the new Western Athletic Conference, and with only three victories in nine games, it is still the weakling of its league. But this season, the Cougars have...
...Utah boosters invited him to a recruiting banquet, but the dinner was postponed. Utah State talent hunters asked him to a swimming party, took one look at his skinny body in swimming trunks and crossed him off. When less choosy Brigham Young offered him an athletic scholarship, devout Mormon Fortie jumped at the chance. As a sophomore at B.Y.U., he played second-string T-formation quarterback: last year, as a single-wing tailback, he was a sensation when he played, but he spent almost half of the season on the bench, nursing an injured ankle...
...muscular Igbo tribesman was only half kidding. Last week, as he stepped into the outdoor ring at San Francisco's chilly Candlestick Park, Tiger was a 1-2 favorite to beat one of boxing's most durable champions: Middleweight Gene Fullmer, 31, the brawling, broken-nosed Mormon elder who won his title back in 1959, has successfully defended it seven times since...