Word: prescient
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Abraham Lincoln died shortly after 7 a.m. on April 15, 1865. "Now he belongs to the ages," Edwin Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War, said at the President's deathbed. It was a prescient thought, because it suggested not only the long cultural presence ahead for Lincoln but also the fact that generations would possess...
...Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows,” declares Trinculo in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” and that adage proved to be prescient as Lawrence H. Summers weathered the storm touched off by his January remarks on gender differences...
Except for those few appearances before last November’s Bush victory (in which it proved itself blessedly prescient)—and except for a couple unexpected detours along la rue Larry Summers—its subject has been the future of the defeated, demoralized Democrats...
...uncannily prescient review of Lithgow was written for The Crimson in 1965 about his role in “Tartuffe,” in which Harrison H. Young ’66 says, “If John Lithgow weren’t the star of this show it wouldn’t be worth seeing. He is. It is. See it. When you grow up you can tell people at cocktail parties you saw him before...
This great legacy does not lie in integrated water fountains, but instead is embedded in King’s philosophy, which immediately before his death began to develop into a comprehensive and prescient critique of the symbiotic global relationship between American capitalism, racism, and imperialism. As those who would have been King’s enemies in life pay lip service to his ideals, hijacking his rhetoric for their own purposes, it is imperative that the true custodians of his legacy see to it that the true King is not lost to the dustbin of history in favor...