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Show -132- have been tempted to bait him by stating his own belief that teachers had a right to strike, he had no such desire today. He changed the subject by asking about his brother-in-law's wife and children (he had six children, with a seventh on the way). "They're fine," he said, "just fine." He asked his sister-in-law about her family, and she was more expansive. She had four boys, three of them by an earlier husband, who had died undergoing a minor operation. Her oldest boy had just graduated from law school; her youngest had recently completed two years as a Mormon Missionary. The Professor and his wife had gone to Utah for a week during the past summer, primarily to visit his mother, who was in her eighties, and what had surprised him most during his stay was how religious the generation of his nieces and nephews had become. Their parents, with a few exceptions, were lukewarm Mormons, socially conforming, even sending their children on missions, but seldom attending services, while their children had become devoutchurch-goers. His own children, perhaps because they had spent so little time in the state where they were born, were not at all like their cousins. The younger daughter, during her high school years in the Midwest, had professed an interest in the Mormon Church and had allowed herself to be baptized. She had even chosen to attend college in Utah, and had remained behind to do so when the Professor was asked to go to Turkey to teach |