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DIED. HOWARD W. HUNTER, 87, the 14th president, prophet, seer and revelator of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; in Salt Lake City, Utah. A former corporate lawyer, Clayton was the first Mormon president born in this century; his nine-month term was the shortest in church history...
Howard Hunter, the president, "prophet, seer and revelator" of the Mormon Church, died this morning in Salt Lake City after just 9 months at the helm of the 9-million member faith. He was 87 and suffered from prostate cancer. The one-time corporate lawyer served the shortest presidential term in the 165-year history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. TIME senior writer Richard N. Ostling notes that Hunter "had power in his church exceeding that of the pope, but made barely a dent as a church leader." (Mormons believe their leader, unlike the pontiff...
Nolde belonged to the radical group, Die Bruke, for a year; and his woodcut portrait, "The Prophet," is one of the most famous examples of their German Expressionism. But the artist did not consider himself cosmopolitan like his contemporaries. This sentiment is emphasized by his deep committment to the land his ancestors had farmed and his native village, from which he took his surname. When Nolde offered a vision of his German homeland, the Nazis not only forbade him to work (with little success), but ridiculed him and other artists in the 1937 exhibit of "Degenerate Art." Their fear...
Even a biblical prophet could not have foreseen the cataclysms the 20th century would visit on the Chosen People. The Jews of Europe would come close to extinction in the Nazi Holocaust. Many of the traumatized survivors would be repressed and secularized by more than four decades of communism. The fathers would be forced to turn away from their faith, and their children would grow up in ignorance...
Still, it may have some future utility. In olden days, as a token of his romantic seriousness, a gent used to give his lady a copy of Kahlil Gibran's profoundly woozy The Prophet. Perhaps the gift of a videocassette of Before Sunrise will offer a similar opportunity for '90s fellows too clever to announce that they're on the make...