Word: teresas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
Matt's story sounds much like that of Larry Dewey '73, a first-year Medical School student who graduated from the college last year and is now a resident proctor in Greenough and lives with his wife Teresa and one-year-old daughter Andrea. Dewey arrived at Harvard in fall 1969 from a rural area ten miles outside Boise, Id. ("Out in the sticks," he admits with a chuckle.) "I got here and just hated the place. At home I could go pheasant and rabbit and deer hunting of fish and catch 20-inch trout. But here there...
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...
...admired her until I noticed that the only birth control method offered by her is the rhythm method. If Mother Teresa and others realized that preventing suffering is better than relieving suffering, their efforts would be more valuable. Or do saints need misery...
...woman shall lead us, but not in the style of the strident, power-hungry libbers. I recall Mother Teresa's thought that the best part of love and service in life has been given woman. The beauty of women has always been not in love of self but in love of others...