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...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...
...very prescient man, but he was very non-American in some sense. He always really yearned for a society where a sort of cultivated elite could make decisions on foreign policy,” Maier said...
...Touching on all the major events of San Francisco's, and America's, early Twentieth Century history, "Four Immigrants" has remarkable power as a personal account of events that shaped this country. Surprisingly, it also works as a prescient foreshadowing of issues that continue to be relevant at the start of the 21st century. As you might expect, the very first panel shows the four guys on the deck of a ship looking toward the shore of the new land. "Here we are lads, U.S.A., land of opportunity," says Charlie. Such optimism gets a very quick reality check...
Posing an ironically prescient query to Summers, Donna J. Nelson, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Oklahoma, asked if a transcript of the president’s remarks would be released...