Word: propheteer
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...very much of a kind of community spirit which is involved in Islam and this was of course all formulated back in the seventh century, when trade was very simple and not at all well developed," said Hayes. "...There were abuses taking place which the prophet [Mohammed], himself a trader, observed and felt he could remedy...
...decline of the prophet cartoon also seems to coincide with my sense that, the infectious enthusiasm of crazy comet cults notwithstanding, the new millennium is itself well on the way to becoming played out. For those of us who are neither waiting around for aliens nor gearing up for a fire fight with the new world order, the big rollover is shaping up as the Super Bowl of infrequent calendrical events: overblown and unsatisfying in equal proportion, the last in a long line of 20th century hot-air generators. Newspapers and magazines have already struck up regular millennium sections; special...
...appeal to the general electorate. "We have enjoyed enormous success in the arena of issue politics," he told TIME. "In order to take that forward to its logical conclusion, we have to have the same measure of success in winning elections." Forget Lee Atwater; Reed wants to be the prophet of the next great Republican awakening...
...find. The house, more than one awed witness noted, was immaculate, tidier even than before the victims had moved in. It was as if, in preparing for their death, the members of what the world now knows as the Heaven's Gate cult were heeding the words of the prophet Isaiah: "Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live...
...asks, What is going on over there? And then he answers in a series of brilliantly etched close-ups that when read together have a cumulative, pointillist impact. Remnick shows readers Yeltsin's civil war with the Russian parliament, the populated rubble of Chechnya, the return of the unhonored prophet Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the offices of the new business czars, and the salons of Moscow's intelligentsia. He likes to put you in a room where important people carry on thought-provoking discussions. In one intense conversation, satirical novelist Vladimir Voinovich laments that the party big shots and KGB bosses quickly...