Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They're very proud of the fact--up there in Little Cottonwood Canyon deep in the heart of Mormon-land--that it snows a lot in Alta. So when nature proves them wrong, and when it doesn't snow, they don't say much at all. But sometimes, once in a very long while, Christmas is just a little bit too white and Cottonwood goes...
...celebrated the New Year inauspiciously in the lobby of Western Airlines terminal of the Salt Lake City Airport. It was New Year's and we were young and Utah was dry. No liquor gets sold over the counter in the homeland of Mormon sobriety. You went to a bar, or so they told us, and brought your own bottle and paid for a set-up. So we lounged in the orange plastic chairs, trying to sleep off the state and the snow
...ranks of the stay-at-homes are growing for other reasons as well. In Washington State a Mormon mother keeps her two daughters out of public schools because she fears they will be taught Darwinian concepts of evolution...
...rent. Most of the cast had never heard of Evanston, much less the A & A, until they found themselves waylaid outside town by a steaming radiator, broken drive shaft, clogged fuel pump or flat tire, and brought here. Usually they are towed in by Jon Lunsford, 40, soft-spoken Mormon and "the Boss," or by his ace mechanic, Cliff Cole, 36, a chain-smoking drinker-turned-teetotaler, who likes to explain that he's "been working on cars for 40 years." The A & A is mainly a family business. On this, as on most days, Jon Lunsford...
Writer Ostling states that "the most offensive tenet vanished" from the Mormon religion with the recent acceptance of black males to the priesthood. "Curiouser and curiouser," to quote Alice from her Wonderland. Just what is it that makes it more offensive to degrade black men than to degrade all women...