Word: oracularity
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...good poet is to pose riddles-riddles of life, death and immortality-for the heart to answer. The difference between a good and a great poet lies in the lyricism, evocation and after effect of his oracular lines and, most important, in the cry of recognition drawn from the reader. This collection of poems, written over the past 25 years, falls far short of greatness, yet has extraordinary appeal. Fitzgerald blends his commitment to the present with a deep love of the pagan past (with Dudley Fitts, he has ably translated Sophocles' Oedipus Rex), and his work flickers...
...oracular old man in knickerbockers loved controversy, but he might not have liked the one going on in London only six years since his death. To mark the centennial of the birth of the 20th century's No. 1 playwright, wit and sage, London's critics turned their pens to fresh appraisals of George Bernard Shaw. To an extent that aroused passionate Shavians to cries of protest, many of the appraisers found both the man and his works wanting. Sample second thoughts of those who joined in the sport of tearing down...
...fame spread, more and more pilgrims came to hear her oracular utterances and her vague version of black man's Christianity. In the clearing behind her hut she collected them, 500 or more at a time, ordered them on pain of death to close their eyes and listen to the voice of the Almighty-a strange, whistling noise. Spies from a nearby Roman Catholic mission risked opening their eyes and reported that Lenshina merely stepped behind a tree and blew a whistle...
Stormy Weather. Last week Wisconsin obliged the pollsters in properly oracular fashion-by raising more questions than it really answered. The Republicans carried nine out of ten congressional districts, 58 out of 71 counties, and 58% of the total vote (for Ike, 426,408; for Chappie, 20,558). The G.O.P. percentage of total votes was down 18 points from the 1952 primary (when the Republicans came out in droves for a five-man race that did not include Eisenhower), and down only three points from the 1952 general election, when Ike carried the state...
...make their report on the state of his health, an impromptu debate is raging through press, radio, the barbershops, banquet halls, and even the inner sanctums of Washington over what Ike's decision will be. Millions of self-appointed analysts are probing his character, his past, and oracular statements already on the record...