Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mormons believe in a prior spirit life, and their leaders have long taught that people are born into the black race because they somehow failed God during their preexistence. Kimball says flatly that Mormonism no longer holds to such a theory. He remains opposed to interracial marriage but couches his warnings against it as fatherly admonition; Brigham Young considered such marriages an offense punishable by "death on the spot...
Despite such gradual accommodations, Mormonism will never blend easily into the religious landscape. Ever since Jesus appeared to Smith to denounce other Christian creeds as "an abomination," the Mormons have considered themselves the one true "restored" church. While standard-brand Christianity insists that God is a spirit. Mormons believe that he inhabits a body of flesh and bone. In fact the Mormon God was once a man himself, and Mormon men can hope to become gods themselves in the afterlife. The Mormons reject such orthodox doctrines as the Trinity and original sin. In their complex eschatology, Jesus will return...
...talk and touch with any real warmth. Their three daughters are a successful poet (Diane Keaton) married to a novelist who boozes because her reviews are better than his; an actress (Kristin Griffith) who can only get parts on TV; and a young woman (Marybeth Hurt) with the spirit of an artist, but no gift for any particular art. Late in life father has divorced mother, who grows more visibly dotty as the knowledge sinks in that he will never return; indeed, he has taken up with a sensible widow (Maureen Stapleton) whom the kids hate despite (really because...
...with the past." He dropped The Promise from his new album, fearing that it could be narrowly interpreted as a comment on his legal hassles, which he believes have been credited with "too much affect on my writing." He performs the song in concert, though, and its dour, defiant spirit haunts the album nonetheless...
Darkness passes the romantic delirium of Born to Run, cuts deeper, lingers longer. The proud prisoners of shore towns, the rod riders and front-porch madonnas, turn up again, but no longer bursting with the same heady spirit. Here the "shutdown strangers and hot rod angels" suffer a sudden, splintering sense of their own settled fates. They crash right up against that darkness in the album's title. There are a lot of victims, like the girl in Racing in the Street, one of Springsteen's best songs, who "stares off alone into the night/ With the eyes...