Word: cassandra
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...Cassandra-like, Jefferson could sometimes read the future: "I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be any vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe." Shays's Rebellion did not horrify Jefferson nearly so much as it did Washington, Said he: "I like a little rebellion now & then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere...
...might say, "It can't happen anywhere," she has only to point to Germany. But Frank Hillier and Sacker are not so much copies of Adolf Hitler and Ernst Roehm as translations of them into recognizable English types. Author Jameson has made an ominously plausible case. A Cassandra who hates what she foresees, she prophesies so graphically that, unlike Cassandra, she may be listened...
...away because he had seen his first robin, his first crocus. But psychologically the rest of Washington was still in the depths of winter. "Once more," observed Pundit Walter Lippmann, "we have come to a period of discouragement after a few months of buoyant hope. Pollyanna is silenced and Cassandra is doing all the talking. . . . Within the Administration itself there is a notable loss of self-confidence which is reflected in leadership that is hesitant and confused...
...events (and the French, it appears, pride themselves on their logic) forced the two governments to resume diplomatic relations. The threatened military recrudescence of Germany has now brought France and Russian together as effectively as did their fear of the more powerful Germany of forty-five years ago. Cassandra-like observes can only mediate on the future with a faintly dolorous apprehension...
...toes of his fixed-income supporters. Even though wage-cutting, as R. G. Hawtrey has pointed out from his eyrie in the Bank of England may not prove sufficient to increase exports to any appreciable degree in a world of incredible tariff walls, and even though, as Cassandra Keynes has warned, wage-cutting may provoke bitter retaliation by other countries, still Il Duce does not care to risk offending the class which might at some later time furnish Mussolini, 2nd. There is no gain to the all-powerful dictator in making enemies in high places when avoidable...