Word: propheteering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seriousness the determined kind of pacifist which he had been impersonating. Hector Lazo here brings up in suggestive and stimulating form, issues which may well be the most momentous and the most urgent which men of this generation have to decide. For he would be a sanguine prophet who could look into the seeds of time and judge that the grains of war will be the ones to fall among thorns or upon rocky ground. And once the guns are fired there can be no escaping that fundamental decision of personal political action and individual conscience--to join the forces...
Alexander Wollcott's retirement from The New Yorker occurred at what many observers considered the peak of an extraordinary career. Once the ranking dramacritic of Manhattan, he had become a sort of glorified gossip columnist, a genteel Walter Winchell, and a peevish prophet of arts & letters. Few men can tell a story as entertainingly as Alexander Woollcott, and few would dare to be as malicious. As Cream of Wheat's "Town Crier" on the radio, he received more "high class" fan mail than any other single entertainer on the Columbia network. Sales of his book, While Rome Burns...
...need not be a prophet," warned President William Henry Dick of the Mississippi River Flood Control Association last week, "to forecast another flood for this spring...
...younger days who saddled Great Britain with the Income Tax Act. Today at 71 he hopes to stump up enough enthusiasm for his New Deal to be called to power in coalition with a Labor Government after the next general election. "Labor will win a big electoral victory," declared Prophet Lloyd George, "but will be unable to govern effectively . . . alone. ... I am ready to co-operate...
...Veblen was no prophet of things-as-they-should-be but an analyst of things-as-they-are. He gave no answers, put many a stumping question. No one was ever quite sure just what Veblen himself believed. Biographer Dorfman hazards no opinion, concludes that "the question as to the exact nature of his influence remains still to be answered." A week before his death, in a little shack in Palo Alto, he penciled a typical testament: "It is ... my wish . . . that my ashes be thrown loose into the sea, or into some sizable stream running to the sea; that...