Word: isaiah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Downcast, he takes consolation in politics under the tutelage of a wonderful figure of fun, an editorial bull-roarer called Camacho, from whose lips "anathemas were springing . . . as from the lips of Isaiah; the triumphal palms were turning green in his hands. Every gesture seemed a principle. When he opened his arms, striking the air, it was as though an entire program were unfolding." Rubião, the gullible incomepoop, throws good money after bad journalism, and begins to dream of a seat in the Chamber of Deputies...
...Isaiah...
...seems to the general public that it is no fault of Professor Wendell Furry that you fellows at Harvard have not acquired a decided red tinge. Who knows but what the bewhiskered prophet Isaiah had your paper in mind when he wrote as above...
...first lesson in the Sunday service at the Church of St. James the Apostle in the Essex village of Greenstead Green was read to the congregation by that distinguished parishioner, Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler. The text was from Isaiah. "How beautiful upon the mountains," read Butler, "are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings ... of good...
...Isaiah 40: 6-8: "The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field...