Word: oracularity
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Leaving the past to President Pusey, Dean Bundy occupied himself with the future. Knowingly, he predicted a tuition rise last October. Lo and behold, in January the prediction came true, as tuition rose to $1000 for next year. We congratulated Dean Bundy for his oracular powers, and suggested that perhaps tuition should have risen even higher--simultaneously, of course, with scholarship...
...Sociologist Lucien Levy-Bruhl: "Le reve est le vrai dieu des Primitifs [The dream is the real god of primitive peoples]." The Russians know that the far-flung Amangtak-wena tribe is expecting its chief witch doctor to have a "dream," i.e., to receive from the spirit world an oracular directive on tribal policy. Hunter-Hero Pierre de Beauvilliers suspects a sinister hand when a Negro clutching a flamingo feather (the summons to a dream powwow) is murdered. Pierre gets on the scent like a pointer, and soon every trail is dotted with silent tribesmen padding to the rendezvous where...
...occasionally been hazy about the exact hour of his birth. "I was really born on the 23rd," said he. His family then cooperated in helping him turn 92 on that day. Asked to pass on a gem of wisdom to his juniors, Mack cogitated briefly, then in his best oracular manner rumbled : "People are living too fast...
Eric Fletcher, a back-bench Laborite, brought up the talk of Churchill's resignation, "on which we shall no doubt now be receiving some authoritative enlightenment." Snorted Churchill loudly: "Delusion." Observed Fletcher: "We shall all know how to interpret that oracular interjection...
...political oracle, Harry Truman bows neither to man nor public-opinion poll. Last week, at his weekly press conference, the President cocked his head and assumed his wise, oracular look while the New York Times's William Lawrence asked a carefully framed question. "Mr. President," said Lawrence slowly," in General Eisenhower's book, Crusade in Europe, he quotes you as having told him in Europe that there was no position he wanted that you wouldn't help him get, and that specifically included the presidency in 1948.* I'd like to know if that applies...