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...Soviet Union and its former satellites "as a corruption of a set of principles, at base idealistic which went wrong." he recalls being impressed by Gunter Grass's essays, "Two States-One Nation?) which, although enormously popular during the euphoria which accompanied the unification of Germany, were eerily prescient, foretelling the economic and social troubles which are now plaguing that country...
...Hammer of God, about an asteroid that imperils the earth, is only the second piece of fiction ever to be published in TIME. (The first was a story by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1969.) The 74-year-old British futurist, who has written more than 50 books, is often as prescient as he is prolific. Clarke has long warned about humankind's vulnerability to asteroid impacts, a subject that is just now capturing the attention of the scientific mainstream. "I'm not a predictor," says Clarke. "I'm an extrapolator. Sometimes I hear of a scientific discovery or invention, and then...
...want to fight poptrash. When her husband launched his unsuccessful 1988 White House bid, there was speculation that Tipper's crusade would cost him the support of MTVoters. Four years later, with family values finding their way into every Republican sound bite, she looks not so much prudish as prescient. "I feel like I've been a voice in the wilderness," she says...
...this respect the assassination theorists who seem most prescient, or at least realistic, are the odd couple of Malcolm X and L.B.J. It was Malcolm who provoked a storm of obloquy in the aftermath of the Dallas shooting when he said J.F.K.'s killing was "a case of the chickens coming home to roost." And it was L.B.J. who 10 years later gave a kind of gritty geopolitical substance to Malcolm's metaphor when he told an ex-aide that J.F.K. was "running a damned Murder Incorporated in the Caribbean" -- all those CIA assassination plots -- and that he believed...
...village girls who persuade someone to lick a frosted ax, to which of course the tongue sticks. The devil wonders idly, "What would become of an ax in space?" It would orbit there, "and the astronomers would calculate the rising and setting of the ax." Dostoyevsky's devil was prescient, speaking a century before bright metal began to fly up off the earth and circle round it. There is something spookily splendid about evil as an ax in space...