Word: predictioneer
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By way of persuasion, the magicians threatened to hypnotize the police en masse, or, alternatively, offered to solve Rome's horrendous traffic problems. So far, neither suggestion has budged the government. The protest leader was the Magician of Tobruk, who takes his name from a childhood prediction of his...
The tall towers can be seen from miles away-glum, graceless structures, most of them still unfinished. They mark Co-Op City, a vast middle-income housing project for about 60,000 people, which is now rising over the desolate flats of northern New York City. Ringed by highways and...
By observing slowdowns - and even apparent reversals-in the fault movements at certain points, and by correlating them with subsequent earthquakes in the same areas, Hofmann gradually developed a rule-of-thumb system for quake prediction. His technique is far from foolproof; although he has correctly forecast eight recent earthquakes...
The musical structure that he favors is basically one of tight bursts of packaged melody--made up of a stinging organ sound, precise drumming and his own jabbing giutar, between intervals of his own singing which is acute and stormy. He also seems to have a nice sense of balance...
Communism and Capitalism. Russian Communists were as hostile toward Thomas as he was toward them. Leon Trotsky once rumbled: "Norman Thomas called himself a socialist as a result of misunderstanding." But the real issue, Thomas insisted, was not Communism against capitalism. It was democracy against totalitarianism. In 1959, he ventured...