Word: prophete
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...appearance either. The story of the Harvard professor who believes in little green man shared up billing with the usual Oprah is certainly an insult; but to be laughed at by R.D. Sahl is surely a much deeper slander. May some of these supposedly ubiquitous aliens carry their Cantabridgian prophet away...
...Greek mythology, Cassandra was a prophet who rebuffed the advances of Apollo, God of Music, and was thus given the curse that her prophecies would never be believed. The Gods of Pop Music would love to see Cassandra Wilson $ submit, and she sometimes responds to the pressure to seek a larger audience. This summer, for instance, she will sing the title track on When Doves Cry, an album of Prince songs performed by jazz musicians and vocalists. But even when covering pop songs, she gives them jazz depth. "I've gone too far into jazz to ever abandon...
...heading for the hills in a hurry, and we faced the prospect of spending the night with lyme ticks and the Red Baron if we didn't make the parking lot in time. As dusk settled, we stumbled into the empty parking lot and sprinted to the car. The prophet-of-doom ranger was just locking up as we screeched up to the gate. He approached us and, instead of getting mad or something, he said: "Around the next bend you'll see a deer making its way across the marsh towards the Great House." We had no time...
...tradition of satirists from Mark Twain to Salman Rushdie, Theroux updates the story of the prophet without honor in his own country. For prophet one could read writer, although the plot of this allusive entertainment gallops on its own. The style is picaresque, the message is salvation through health food, and the medium is Millroy, a road-show magician. Part Jesus, part Prospero, part yogi, he alone would make this a novel to conjure with. But Theroux adds another delight, Jilly Farina, a plucky adolescent with an artless narrative voice that, like Huckleberry Finn's, grabs and holds the reader...
Despite its name, the Nation of Islam has never been accepted as valid by the major branches of the religion, in part because it granted its leader the status of prophet. Says Mustafa Malik, director of research of the American Muslim Council: "To be a Muslim, you have to believe that there is only one God and Muhammad is his last Prophet. The Nation of Islam people believe that Elijah Muhammad is the last Prophet. There is nothing in common except that we call ourselves Muslims and they call themselves Muslims." The Nation of Islam is not alone. Several...