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...years 1960-67, the Faculty built up a surplus in its unrestricted account of $9 million. "Any dean of this Faculty would today rejoice if some prophet could assure him that the seven fat years of the 1960s would be followed by no more than seven lean years in the 1970s," Dunlop said...
When Mohammed died, his first caliph, Abu Bakr, told the Prophet's mourning followers: "If you worship Mohammed, Mohammed has died. But if you worship Allah, he is alive and never will die." Throughout the Middle East, a variation of that aphorism was broadcast over Arab radios last week: "If you worship Gamal, Gamal is dead. But if you worship the ideas of Gamal Abdel Nasser, they are alive and will never die." Nasser had many ideas, not all of them worth preserving. The future of the Middle East may thus depend on which the Arab world jettisons and which...
...American University points out, "was not so much what he did, but what he meant to people." To most, he meant hope. "Saladin achieved success through his political and diplomatic skill," says Salem, "but there was no question of identifying with the masses. Since the time of the Prophet, Nasser was the first leader to address himself to the shaab, the forgotten masses, rather than to the intellectuals." The masses saw him as the hero who would unify the Arab world after hundreds of disastrous years...
...done, it's different from what other people see. It is ordinary to me, but not to you." Precisely. O'Keeffe's laconic familiarity with her own images is oddly reminiscent of William Blake's after-dinner chats with the Prophet Ezekiel. Vision, even mysticism, sits on her like a well-worn old coat. No other American artist, and few living painters anywhere, have fused their inner and outer worlds with such spare grace. The life and work...
Shaplen the observer occasionally becomes Shaplen the prophet, and his track record here is mixed. In 1965 he foresees two or three more years of war, just when the government was foreseeing two or three more months of war. In October 1966, he predicts that the only way the Vietcong can win the war is to engage the United States in lengthy negotiations while reducing the level of fighting, this at a time when Washington was refusing to negotiate. But, if his capacity as a prophet is unstable, his capacity as a reporter is unchallenged. Through it all, he documents...