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...flock harassed. In 1846, their temple barely completed, they reluctantly embarked on an extraordinary trek. It would produce another mighty settlement, near the Great Salt Lake. But Nauvoo, says Richard Ostling, co-author of the book Mormon America, quickly attained the status of a lost ideal: "the thorough expression of the Mormon kingdom of God on earth...
...decision to be a student journalist has yielded many perks. When I reflect on the past four years, I can recall almost every significant event in terms of some piece I wrote. I therefore have a rich and thorough record of my most formative years. I have never been seduced by the temptations of self-involvement. Working on the newspaper, I have always been forced to consider the diverse happenings in the community around me. I have met my closest friends. I have had the pleasure of subjecting my beliefs to the often unsympathetic scrutiny of others. I have learned...
...Kennedy as saint and martyr: "He was a Harvard man, a naval hero, an Irishman, a politician, a bon vivant, a man of unusual intelligence, charm, wit and ambition, 'debonair and brilliant and brave,' but his deeper meaning was still in process of crystallization." In recent decades, a more thorough and honest parsing of Kennedy has edited a lot of the hagiology out of his memory...
...Ronald Reagan [WORLD, May 8] is grand election-year theater, but isn't it more likely that threats from rogue nations will come in the form of terrorist acts inside the U.S.? Wouldn't that be simpler and more cost effective for foreign enemies than building exotic missiles? A thorough look around, rather than techno-stargazing, would make the most sense. DON GLASCOCK Santa...
...ideas and her frequent digressions-makes her writing difficult to follow. She frequently pastes together quotes from poets, authors and painters connected to Rozanova without relating them to her arguments and the explanations she provides are often as vague as the quotes themselves. Fortunately, Gurianova provides a thorough chronology of Rozanova's life and includes several of Rozanova's articles, which help to clarify some of the theoretical underpinnings of the succession of -isms with which Rozanova was associated. However, Gurianova's analyses are convoluted and somewhat garbled (part of the blame may fall on the translator, Charles Rougle...