Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University of Wyoming, 14 blacks were dismissed from the football team after protesting an upcoming game with Brigham Young University. Reason: Brigham Young is affiliated with the Mormon Church, which bans Negroes from church offices. Now the Black Students Union at the University of Arizona has demanded that Brigham Young be expelled from the Western Athletic Conference. Similar discontent is spreading among other black athletes, who presented assorted demands and staged protests at Indiana University, the University of Washington and the University of Minnesota...
Snarr is confident that things will improve. After all, his whole life has been spent meeting challenges, including a childhood stutter, three Golden Gloves boxing championships in his native Idaho, and a tour as a Mormon missionary in Ireland ("Now that was tough," he roars). Snarr got into billboards because his father, a potato farmer, was too poor to send him to college. By designing weirdly shaped signs that visually jolted motorists, he earned his way through two years of Brigham Young University, then snagged a $400,000 sign contract from Harrah's casinos...
...Calvinist idea of "total depravity," the essential corruption of all man's powers. The authors point out that Jews in particular "do not hold that man is permanently tainted with guilt as a result" of Adam's sin, and quote also the second of the Mormon Articles of Faith, which states that "men will be punished for their own sins and not for Adam's transgressions." Unusual interpretations by smaller sects are noted elsewhere in the Reader. General William Booth's idea of a strongly centralized authority for the Salvation Army, the book points out, derived...
Proxy Baptism. Mormon interest in genealogy stems from the religion's status as a recent or "latterday" faith. Christ's Gospel, in Mormon belief, was lost in ancient times through man's wickedness and was not restored until Joseph Smith received his golden plates from the Angel Moroni in upstate New York in 1823. But the acceptance of the "restored Gospel," and baptism in the True Church that proclaimed it, was considered necessary to earn the highest reward after the resurrection, the "celestial kingdom." Some way, then, had to be found to bring into that kingdom those...
...Federal Communications Commission, which earlier this year threatened to order all cigarette commercials off the air waves. Both the FCC and the Federal Trade Commission promised to drop their proposals for stern regulatory action if the industry could make its plan work. Utah Democrat Frank Moss, the nonsmoking Mormon who heads the consumer subcommittee and is the leading tobacco opponent in the Senate, said happily that "the dike has been broken...