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Occasionally, columnists graduate from the simple absurdity of their self-important prose and enter the realm of transcendent absurdity. Such a columnist is Joseph Alsop, prophet of the Imminent American Victory in Vietnam, and a man who has devoted his mature life to the pursuit of chimerical creatures. Nothing in American letters is so tragically commonplace as such a columnist--from whom the oracular grace has so obviously been withdrawn, who has been wrong so many times that no serious person talks or listens to him anymore, but who continues to bowl on in abject public humiliation. The fallen columnist...
...Africa" by plotting a naval attack in the first place. He greeted the newly arrived Canadian High Commissioner in Kampala, William Olivier, by asking him when Canada intended to throw out the Queen and install a Canadian as head of state. Replied a startled Olivier: "I am not a prophet...
...exhibition includes only twelve icons, of which four are good, the rest mediocre. Two lovely 15th century icons of the Pskov school--"St. Boris and St. Gleb" and "Prophet Elijah and the Fiery Chariot"--are distinguished by their vibrant reds, simplicity of line, and native charm. Another early 15th century icon, "The Dormition of the Virgin," is redeemed by the beautifully drawn central figure of the Holy Spirit (the rest of the figures are stereotypic and pedestrian.) "Our Lady of Jerusalem" is the only example from the famous Novgorod school. And the greatest of Russian icon painters--Feofan the Greek...
...Jonah, Paul Goodman wrote a marvelous throw-away line. Doomed to preach to the masses that did not want to be saved, doomed to be cast away at sea and swallowed by leviathan, poor Jonah cries out to the heavens: "It should happen to a dog to be a prophet of the Lord of Hosts...
Died. Paul-Henri Spaak, 73, a great-spirited man from a small country, whose passionate vision and eloquence made him both part architect and chief prophet of a united Europe; of kidney disease; in Brussels. Though he did not live to see the political European union he envisioned, he could take major credit for a new feeling and policy of common concern among Europe's oft-warring nations. Trained in law, Spaak was first elected to the Belgian parliament in 1932 as a Socialist; by 1938 he had become his country's youngest Prime Minister. When Belgium fell...