Word: prophete
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...bankers, scientists and poets, journalists, scholars, and headmasters of elite preparatory schools, had not seen fit to honor--not what we use to call in the old parlance "a credit to his race," but the controversial prod to our self-satisfaction, the extraordinary moral teacher of our time, the prophet of living religious faith, the leader of a truly democratic movement of Americans for freedom and for peace...
...crewmen checked its baggage for bombs that anonymous callers had warned were aboard. That was nothing particularly unusual for a man whose life had been threatened so often, but when King arrived in Memphis he met a different challenge. Some newspapers had emphasized during the previous week that the prophet of the poor had been staying at the luxurious Rivermont, a Holiday Inn hostelry on the Mississippi's east bank, which charges $29 a night for a suite. To repair his image, King checked into the Negro-owned Lorraine, a nondescript, two-story cinderblock structure near Memphis' renowned...
Black militants used his murder to cry, "The civil rights movement is dead!" But they had said it long before his assassination. King was dangerously close to slipping from prophet to patsy. When his previous week's march in Memphis degenerated into riotous looting, a black gang leader who organized the violence chortled: "We been making plans to tear this town up for a long time. We knew he'd turn out a crowd." For years, behind his back, King's Negro denigrators had called him "de Lawd." Lately he had heard himself publicly called an Uncle...
...grey Sherlock Holmes hat jostles freely and the parade swirls again. A passing van swallows its music splashing choice bits benignly at you so you don't feel left out. "Come on without/ Come on within/ You'll not see nothing like...(grateful to the Great Commercial Prophet holed up in New York, fill in the blanks)...the Mighty Quinn...
...modern science. Utterly impartial in the exercise of its talents, it is also becoming a valuable servant of contemporary religion. All the computer does, of course, is correlate facts and attitudes that have been gathered by questionnaire. But clergymen are be coming convinced that, properly programmed, the transistorized prophet can help the church adapt to modern spiritual needs...