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During the long and uncertain trek westward over the plains in 1847, Brigham Young's Mormon pioneers obeyed this admonition, never beginning a day without a song or meeting the night without a hymn of thanks. So ingrained did the joyful habit of singing become that Young founded a choir at journey's end. This week the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, having long since won world renown, starts its 35th year of radio broadcasting-the longest sustained network program in history...
Cleopatra, still afloat after taking the salvos of Manhattan critics, barged westward. "This lady," said Hollywood's Rosalind Russell at the film's Los Angeles premiere, "is one of the most remarkable fund raisers in the history of the world." It sounded like good news for 20th Century-Fox, but Roz, alas, wasn't talking about Cleo-she was talking about Mrs. Norman ("Buff") Chandler, 61, wife of the president of the Los Angeles Times-Mirror Co. To raise money for her pet project, a new L.A. Music Center, Buff peddled premiere tickets at $250 apiece, raised...
...President Kennedy had another of those busy, busy weeks. Traveling westward, he watched massive demonstrations of nuclear weaponry in the broiling heat of desert missile ranges and from the breezy decks of aircraft carriers. He made speeches on subjects ranging from the bright future of the U.S. Air Force to the nation's earthier civil rights dilemma. He politicked with Democratic officeholders and made a chatty appearance at another of those $1,000-a-couple fund-raising dinners...
...American anti-intellectualism began with American religion, according to Hofstadter. There has always been a conflict in Christianity between heart and mind, but in America it was resolved in favor of heart. The Puritans were genuine intellectuals who supported their religious convictions with learning. But as the homesteaders pushed westward, popular religion fell into the hands of evangelists who preached a direct communion with God: "their business was to save souls as quickly and as widely as possible." Evangelical anti-intellectualism reached its zenith in the revivalist Billy Sunday, who hated learning like hellfire. "What do I care," he scoffed...
...Very Small Remnant, as in his first novel, Carrington, Straight mines and mourns U.S. behavior to the Indians during the often bloody westward expansion at the close of the Civil War, Carrington was a small masterpiece; Remnant is not so successful, but its heroes are the same: those few white men who had the courage to risk unpopularity to deal honestly with...