Word: propheteers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...judgment was premature. In the twilight of her career, McClintock is suddenly being hailed as a scientific prophet. This year she has received eight awards, the richest and most prestigious just last week: a $60,000-a-year, taxfree, lifetime grant from Chicago's MacArthur Foundation and the Lasker prize for basic research, worth $15,000 and often a steppingstone to a Nobel Prize...
...Marxist could conceive, it is proper faith of a century in which men seem to get better at doing just about everything while events get more and more absurdly out of control. Revealed through the agency of a Viennese Jew who alternately wore the hats of humanist, scientist, prophet and pariah, psychoanalysis is a creed without a salvation. There are no elect, and the priesthood does not claim to be holier than the laity. Adhered to by few, it is understood by fewer still. Ultimately, it probably satisfies...
...world nears, according to the biblical prophet Zechariah, visitors from many nations will gather each year in Jerusalem "to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles." The words took life last week as 3,000 people from 35 countries celebrated Tabernacles, or Sukkoth, with parades, cookouts and musical services in one of the Holy City's most spectacular religious events of the year. Significantly, the celebrants were Christians...
...doesn't mean there is anything wrong with it; paintings have no function but to provoke and entertain, and that is the province of personal taste. But architecture is different. It affects us everyday, and when it fails us, our lives are the poorer for it. And, sayeth the prophet Wolfe with characteristic grace and enthusiasm, architecture has failed us on a grand scale...
...part to his physiognomy. Naipaul's Indian heritage made him appear sympathetic to some who might otherwise have mistrusted him. Ayatullahs in Qum found his looks puzzling but nonthreatening; in Pakistan he was taken for a Pakistani; a teacher in Indonesia remarked admiringly: "You look like our Prophet." Such appearances were deceiving. Naipaul is a man of the West, through and through. He may have grown up as an alien in Trinidad, then a British colony, but his escape from that subjugation came not through mysticism or political revolution but through secular education, a mastery of Western intellectual traditions...