Word: prophet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Part of his nature presents itself as a prophet whose choices are infallible Giving AIDS and a means to death is supposed to be a merciful end to Emma's worthless life. Giving her a gun as a gift anticipates her own desire to cut out before AIDS takes its toll. Posing as an expert on life, he spouts poetry with all sorts of pretentious and clumsy lines like "they could not hear his cries of sorrow." Evidently Silver intended a great deal with Todd's character, but his script trail him. some acceptable way of saying such silly things...
...officials investigating the deaths of 53 members of the Order of the Solar Temple identified the remains of the cult's leader, Luc Jouret, among the dead. Nevertheless, the motive behind what officials now believe was mass murder, followed by mass suicide, remains a mystery. They suspect that the Prophet of Doom may have indeed believed the end of the world was near...
...alone could not account for his national renown when he passed away last August. Indeed, the obituaries and encomia for him in Israeli newspapers made only casual mention of his academic career. Leibovitz was remembered--and will continue to be remembered--as a twentieth century gadfly, a latter-day prophet...
Leibovitz's 20-year-old meditations on the causal connection between occupation and the sickness of the Israeli polity were re-discovered and their author pronounced a prophet...
...Dante's Comedy to be divine." He amplifies this perception a bit later: "As a writer, Shakespeare was a sort of god." Bloom is entitled to his worship, since he has spent a lifetime of reading achieving it. But he is not, in The Western Canon, a very effective prophet for his cause. Imaginative literature -- sacred texts or a rich lode of inspiring writing -- badly needs a less agonized champion...