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Proper Wasps still rule in tight little enclaves of high society that are rarely cracked by newcomers. Yet anyone with a will-and money-can find a way to outflank Wasp society, which is often haunted by a sense of anachronism. Such is the hostility to the Veiled Prophet parade, an annual Wasp event in St. Louis, that the queen and her maids of honor last year had to be covered with a plastic sheet to protect them from missiles tossed from the crowd...
...REGARD the politician as a prophet in the Hebrew sense-not the man who prophesies the future but that man who speaks out what is in the hearts of his people." The words are those of Enoch Powell, and he is talking about himself. In less than a year Powell, the Conservative M.P. who looks like a tensed-up Terry-Thomas and sprinkles his speeches with allusions to classical history, has emerged as his own kind of politician-prophet. In the process, he has stirred a furor both in Britain and abroad. For what Powell sees-and speaks...
Socialism and Rheumatism. He was an indefatigable barnstormer, crisscrossing the U.S. in each of his presidential campaigns, riding the upper berth of a Pullman sleeper to save money, lecturing in the booming, resonant tones of a prophet. As early as 1928, he argued for old-age pensions and public works, the five-day week and unemployment insurance. When Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal made those ideas law, socialism's appeal to the U.S. working class began to diminish. "It was often said," Thomas reflected, "that Roosevelt was carrying out the Socialist Party platform. Well...
...discoveries made a prophet in his own time of Cornell Astrophysicist Thomas Gold, who last spring predicted that pulsars with faster rates would soon be discovered and that some might well be detected in the process of slowing down. The findings also supported the contention that pulsars are actually neutron stars, strange celestial bodies that were mathematically postulated by scientists in the 1930s but have not yet been proved to exist...
Even his more modern lyrics are unashamed of their formality, their yearning to comprehend the universe as well as the individual and his own meagre world. In the reticent themes of Advice to a Prophet (1961) Wilbur's voice becomes laconic and impersonal. "A Summer Morning," about the pathos of a gardener and a cook experiencing the estate of their decadent employers, "possessing what the owners can but own," could have been a pathetic monologue by Randall Jarrell; most of his poems, aside from the many French translations, have no predecessor...