Word: propheteers
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...deepest American dilemma regarding excellence arises from the nation's very success. The U.S. has been an astonishing phenomenon- excellent among the nations of the world. But as the prophet Amos said, "Woe to them that are at ease in Zion." It is possible to have repose, or to have excellence, but only some decorative hereditary monarchs have managed to simulate both. Success has cost Americans something of their energetic desire...
...away all those precious things that Roosevelt brought us 50 years ago," Father Robert F. Drinan, the ADA's president, declared in the convention's opening speech. Sol C. Chaikin, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, labeled the convention a symbolic renaissance and called for "a new prophet...to restate and renew the faith" on the one hundredth anniversary of Roosevelt's birth. And other speakers--including Parliament member Shirley Williams--joined their voices to his in calling for a reemergence of the Roosevelt coalition of labor, liberals and minorities. Last came a note of outright optimism from...
...trouble. There were technical foulups: Ed Asner and Elizabeth Taylor were momentarily trapped in the folds of a falling curtain, like big game in a tree trap. The pace slowed: "I can't read my monitor," James Earl Jones rumbled like an Old Testament prophet rebuking his flock. Most of all, the pretension showed: birthday candles were lit on a cake that looked like the Tower of Babel, as discomfited luminaries dished up decades of encapsulated world history in which the Actors' Fund got featured billing ("A Russian named Pavlov used dogs to study conditioned reflexes...
...comparison, noting that he cannot bear either Wagner's music or his politics. "You must take your gifts-your means of production-as the tools of a teacher," he says, summing up his activist philosophy. "And you must dedicate your energies to teaching and helping. Wagner was a prophet. I'm a social worker...
Muhammad cut the sleeve from his robe rather than disturb his friend, asleep on the Prophet's gown. Samuel Johnson daily pampered his spoiled companion Hodge with meals of fresh oysters. Victor Hugo cherished Gavroche. Cardinal Richelieu left a generous legacy for the 14 he owned. Napoleon is said to have broken into a cold sweat at the sight of one. In his childhood, Smerdyakov, in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, was fond of hanging them. Thomas Hardy and Thomas Gray wrote poems to them; Hemingway shared dinner with his. Physician and Scholar Albert Schweitzer favored two ways...