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...united in a single Arab nation, and their conviction-grudging or enthusiastic-that Nasser represents the best hope of achieving it. This dream of unity harks back to the golden age of the 7th century when, spurred by the messianic Moslem religion handed down by Mohammed the Prophet. Arab warriors burst from their desert peninsula and conquered everything in sight. In less than 150 years, the Arabs swept victoriously north to Asia Minor and the walls of Byzantine Constantinople, south over Persia and Afghanistan to the heart of India, east through Central Asia to the borders of China, west over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: The Camel Driver | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

...sake--fortunately this position calls for no action, but only complacent waiting for individual-type Negroes to drop in. J.G., then, entirely identifies himself with the white liberals, and curses them only to assume the singing-robes of the high-priesthood of liberalism, the persons of the prophet. Thus, he places his hope only in "liberals on both sides of the race barrier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WHITE LIBERAL PROBLEM | 2/28/1963 | See Source »

Homer A. Tomlinson, bishop of the Church of God, presidential candidate of the Theocratic Party, and now "prophet of the world to come," returned yesterday to Harvard, where he had crowned himself kind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard King Comes Back to His Domain, Has Lunch at Lowell | 2/16/1963 | See Source »

...that time Tomlinson, dressed in pink robe and wearing a home-made cardboard crown, sat on a portable aluminum throne, at the start of his second tour around the world to name himself king of 101 nations. Yesterday he appeared in the simple garb of a prophet, a blue suit, and lunched in Lowell House with several friends-including a junior he had crowned "prince of the realm" while last at the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard King Comes Back to His Domain, Has Lunch at Lowell | 2/16/1963 | See Source »

...hears a tapping as of someone gently rapping, rapping at his chamber door. "Surely," says he, "surely that is something at my window lattice." Open then he flings the shutter, and with many a flirt and flutter, in there steps a stately raven of the saintly days of yore. "Prophet!" says he, "thing of evil! Prophet still, if bird or devil! Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, it shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore!" Quoth the raven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ugly Contest | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

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