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Spender abandoned an older conception of the poet as "a kind of shadowy prophet behind the throne of power" in favor of a new idea of the poet as translator of a world which men have created around themselves through actions of the will. "I believed now," writes Spender in his autobiography World Within World, "that everything which men make and invent is to some degree a symbol of an inner state of consciousness within them...Poetry was a use of language which revealed external actuality as symbolic inner consciousness." Intrigued by the kind of hard, clear imagery that...
John the Baptist had some difficult days. So did-on a modest scale-Michael York, who plays the prophet's role in Franco Zeffirelli's The Life of Jesus. "We shot the prison scenes in a real dungeon in a castle in Tunisia," recalls York. "I spent the day actually chained to the wall. It wasn't hard to feel the part." For his final scene at King Herod's banquet, of course, York could appear only in the form of an elaborately made-up piece of sculpture, which enabled him to observe...
Caudill occasionally gets carried away by excessively aghast prose ("The heart flutters in contemplation" while "the greediest mind boggles"). He does not pretend to be impartial. He does not even pretend to be fair. He is a prophet returned from his well-ravaged wilderness with a specific case which, as others have before, asks a general Bicentennial-spoiling question: Will the U.S. go down in history as the land of opportunity that could not control its opportunists...
...worry about it, our goals will come in clusters," Radcliffe soccer mentor Bob Scalise said to his underlings after a lengthy varsity scoring drought and scrimmage losing streak. Color Scalise a prophet as a result of weekend victories over Boston College (5-2) and Tufts...
...historical stage center during this period was held by the Christian Byzantine Empire and the followers of Mohammed, who burst out of the Arabian peninsula after the prophet's death in 632, overran Persia and eventually extended their empire from northern Spain to the frontiers of China. The pagan Khazars successfully resisted Christian and Moslem arms. The power of the two monotheisms seems to have driven the Khazars to seek a god of their own. The problem was, which...