Word: propheteers
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...more like a crusader than a nature-lover, but that's not a bad description: he is a crusader, a new muckraker, in some ways typical of a changed tone in what conservation ought to mean. At 55, he is agile and athletic, still a skilled mountaineer, with a prophet's shock of white hair. His voice has a slight, unstudied Westernness that permits him to be lyrical occasionally. When he describes some of the tremendously complicated problems of dealing with the earth as a closed system, they reduce to a transparent simplicity. He projects himself to an audience...
...lavishness and ruthlessness" in the primaries, or of Lyndon Johnson, rose to nominate a man who had no chance at all to win the nomination: Adlai E. Stevenson. "Do not reject this man who made us all proud to be called Democrats!" cried McCarthy. "Do not leave this prophet without honor in his own party." It was an electrifying speech-and an entirely quixotic gesture...
...Like a muse-spurned poet thumbing through the rhyming dictionary, Lyndon Johnson diligently seeks out the sayings of his embattled predecessors. Last month his favorite prophet was Abraham Lincoln. This month's oracle is his lifelong idol and sometime mentor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In his commentaries on the Viet Nam war last week, L.B.J. invoked F.D.R. to rally support for the cause...
...leader and prophet of "la Huelga," the California grape pickers' 35-month-old strike in the verdant San Joaquin Valley, Cesar Chavez, 41, has combined hard-knuckled organizing tactics with a brand of mysticism peculiarly his own. A Mexican-American who from boyhood worked in the vineyards himself, Chavez patched together his tatterdemalion National Farm Workers Association in 1965, organized scores of picket lines, boycotts, church meetings, marches and sing-ins to lift his people out of peonage...
...their protest marches, the militant student leaders who recently forced the closing of the University of Rome bore a banner inscribed with the three Ms of a new trinity: Marx, Marcuse and Mao. "We see Marx as prophet, Marcuse as his interpreter, and Mao as the sword," said one student-power advocate. On a visit to the Free University of Berlin last summer, Marcuse (pronounced Markooza) drew jammed lecture halls and wild ovations as he spoke glowingly of "the moral, political, intellectual and sexual rebellion of youth...