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...could not help comparing the [Jan. 19] approach to life of the "Power Boys" with that of Mother Teresa and the other "Living Saints" you presented a few weeks ago. If our best response to the problems of the world is "Devil take the hindmost," then the species does not deserve to survive...
Recycled by Mother Teresa...
...Mother Teresa in Delhi where she had opened an orphanage a block from our school. Her sisters would ask our priests for the old cotton cassocks "they were going to throw away." We thought they would be bandages or dust cloths, and were surprised to find them meticulously repaired and worn as a basic garment beneath their saris. The collar of the old Jesuit cassock is clearly visible in your cover picture of Mother Teresa...
...cultural conflict between Mormonism and Harvard originates in the church's ties to the American West as much as from the religion itself. Teresa Dewey, who grew up in Idaho and graduated from Brigham Young before moving here to marry Larry, says it took her a while to cope with the differences between west and east, country and city. The conservative politics and life style of Mormons no doubt has many of its roots in the far west's relative conservatism...
Still relatively young, Bybee and Christensen have not yet faced the conflict between becoming a professional woman and a Mormon wife. But Teresa Dewey, who grew up in Idaho and graduated from BYU before moving here after her marriage, feels she pushed to "be a perfect wife, perfect mother, be active in the community, go into higher education, bake bread and make my own clothes." Trying to meet this "super woman complex," as Teresa calls it, "has frustrated her," and Larry confides that she "has been getting a lot of hassle about being a mother and homebody." Teresa, who works...