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...life on a small planet are not something self-contained but rather stand in profound harmony with the unending movement of the universe....[Thus] the relationship of periods of war to those of the weather, sun-spots, and certain planetary conjunctions is established and accordingly a great war is foretold for 1910-1920. But these and innumerable other connections which are accessible to our senses conceal a mystery we have to respect." Indeed the unraveling of such a mystery calls for the soothsayer's skills, not the scholar's powers of analysis and understanding...
...warriors, their oiled bodies gleaming, danced and chanted, "Yao, yao, we abide, we abide, what was foretold has come to pass." Bells, gongs, metal castanets and deep-throated fontomfroms took up the refrain, then fell to a deep hush as the palace gates swung open. Walking majestically, the new King-or Asantehene-led the procession of sword-carrying royal guards, drummers, musketeers, elephant horn blowers, buglers and slaves. Because the King's person may never touch bare earth, his chamberlains chanted, "Walk slowly, my lord, watch that puddle, beware of the stone, walk slowly, my lord...
...before the occupation of University Hall, three hundred alumni and their wives filed into Burr B for a Return-to-Harvard speech by George Wlad on student disillusionment and its relation to world politics. In the Leverett dining room where the alumni ate with Master Gill, SDS posters foretold of a meeting that night...
...English at the University of Chicago before he joined S.F. State's English department in 1955. He has taken outspoken stands on such diverse issues as all-digit telephone dialing (against), advertising ("venal poetry") and the 1964 Free Speech Movement at Berkeley (against). In a comment that clearly foretold his attitude toward dissenters at S.F. State, Hayakawa castigated Berkeley's promoters of Free Speech. They defy authority, he complained, "yet when punitive action is threatened they holler for amnesty. They want to be martyrs without martyrdom...
...letter from a Major Shaw [March 15] criticized an objective and honest commentary on the war as being "shrill with Cassandra's cry." Although misplaced, this classical reference is nevertheless strangely effective. Cassandra, who foretold the doom of Troy, was granted infallible prophetic powers by Apollo. The god later revenged himself upon her by causing every prophecy she made to be totally disregarded. No one ever believed her until it was too late. Perhaps this is true of Americans and the war of today...