Word: prophete
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...both Saltonstall and Sullivan, by shaking their heads and swearing disbelief and disappointment, are making Harvard and its president, Nathan M. Pusey, look like a prophet. Such is hardly the case...
...plotters set off a radiation bomb which blinds the prophet and isolates him from all guidance except that of his own prophetic sense. Relying on prescience alone, he walks an unerring path until the crisis, when his prophecies desert him and he must be rescued by his allies. But he has lost his function, for he can no longer trust his prophecies or guide his followers. His terrible purpose fulfilled, he steps free of history and walks to a lonely death in the desert, following the Fremen code that blind men must not burden the tribe...
...great truths, new and old, we will not do justice to reporting the phenomena." Perhaps more than any journalist of his generation, Harry Luce-who died three years ago last week at the age of 68-was a man in love with ideas. He was not a prophet or philosopher but an editor and publisher constantly engaged with the temporal problems of current journalism. But as longtime LIFE Editor John K. Jessup notes in the perceptive introduction to The Ideas of Henry Luce (Atheneum; $12.50), "his feeling for the continuity of history and for abstract ideas made him eager...
Radical Saul Alinsky: Prophet of Power...
...what is one to make of such a personage as the prophet. W. D. Fard? According to Black Muslim dogma, Fard came from Allah to Elijah Muhammad in Detroit in the year 1931. He soon mysteriously disappeared, but only after he had explained that the white race was a cruel joke played on the black world by a satanic black named Mr. Yacub. After generations of breeding blacks for light skin on the Island of Patmos. Yacub succeeded in creating the fiendish white race, which was eventually turned loose in the desolate wastes of prehistoric Europe...