Word: predictioneer
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"I think I will win the Republican nomination," Richard Nixon mused last week. "But I think it will be an exciting and spirited contest right up until the last." Nixon did his bit to support the first half of his prediction by attracting an impressive total of 502,000 votes...
The first "Berkeley" was pretty much of a mess. It had existential significance as a prediction and a hope. In concrete terms, however, little was gained. It affected the spirit of the university, not the structure. After Columbia, it appears that the structure will change, because the university's balance...
AFTER COLUMBIA, American universities will never be quite the same again. That is a statement like "the atom bomb changed the nature of American diplomacy," not a prediction or a hope. The ground rules for playing University Power Struggle have changed.
But Burk, the grand old man of Eastern rowing, knows his business, and his prediction may be more than an effort to psych Harvard out. It could be close.
Local newscasts devote more time to explaining a cold front in Canada than they do a war front in Viet Nam for the simple reason that a five-minute weather report wrapped around a commercial makes an attractive-and non-controversial-package for sponsors. Thus forecasts are padded with history...