Word: prophet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others. A leader as well as a scholar, Professor May now runs Yale's Junior Year Abroad program, in 1961 became chairman of the important Course of Study Committee. Now, as Dean May, he will oversee living and learning for 3,990 undergraduates, and become, if one pleased prophet is right, "Yale's answer to Jacques Barzun," the Paris-born provost of Columbia...
...explanation of this supranatural fury, Heschel says, lies in the prophets' claim to be surrogates for God. In their writings, they expressed both their own anger and divine wrath as well; their mission was to make known this "divine pathos"-God's concern for the world-to men. "Prophecy," Heschel writes, "is the voice that God has lent to the silent agony, a voice to the plundered poor. God is raging in the prophet's words." Their distinction "was to sense the human situation as a divine emergency...
Heschel first turned to the study of the prophets as a university student, when he was repelled by the aridity of contemporary philosophy. He has since spent most of his energies defending "the intellectual relevance of the Bible." Heschel argues that the secular disciplines of philosophy or science are no help to man in solving the ultimate riddles of life. "Marx and Freud are interesting," he says, "but in extreme situations, such as in dealing with good and evil, do they lead anywhere? Science presupposes a certain aspect of being, but is it the ultimate?" Heschel answers no, and says...
Looking Britishly baggy but craggily handsome, the gloomy prophet of impending automation, Novelist Aldous Huxley, 68, bravely entered the chic new world of fashion modeling. He consented to pose for Harper's Bazaar with a woolen-suited mannequin at his side. "It was no trouble at all to get him," said a Harper's editor. "A man that age enjoys having a pretty girl...
...Koran on 44 disks, by the dean of Islam's Koran readers, Sheik Mahmoud el Hosaris. To make the Koran's 7th century message apply to modern problems, the council's 180 technical advisers are now turning out fresh commentaries on obscure phrases of the Prophet. They operate a fulltime answering service to resolve such religious scruples of the devout as whether a Moslem can accept a blood transfusion from a non-Moslem, and when abortion is lawful...