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Despite the burden of such a legacy, Russia is changing faster and in more ways than at any time in its history. Instead of the fiery prophet Lenin, the obsessed and brutal Stalin or the bub bly and unpredictable Khrushchev, it is led today by an oligarchy of sober, cautious bureaucrats who embody the country's new striving for respectability. Under the aegis of Premier Aleksei Nikolaevich Kosygin, 63, whose hound-dog countenance is better known in the West than the two or three others with whom he shares power, the government is experimenting with economic liberalization and cautiously...
...Call it the unconscious. "I'm ready for to fade into my own parade." A pipeline laid deep to private magic swirling ships, subterranean homesick blues, dreams. to 115, Desolation Row, flickering vision lights of Johanna, Memphis mobile mind traps and all those psychic lowlands where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes...
When Congress approved Medicare and Medicaid, both proponents and opponents turned prophet. Advocates were sure that the measures would bring enormous health benefits to millions over 65, covered by Medicare, and to more millions in low-income brackets who would be covered (the states permitting) by Medicaid. Doomsayers saw in both programs socialized medicine and the welfare state at its worst; they foresaw hordes of oldsters jamming the hospitals under Medicare and greater hordes of ne'er-do-wells chiseling on Medicaid...
...animals, man is the most unpredictable. Toynbee notwithstanding, history makes an uncertain prophet: the same circumstances, involving different times and different men, can lead to war or peace, love or hate, fraternity or murder. The same hereditary material, pooled by the same man and woman in the act of reproduction, can produce children who do not much resemble either their parents or one another. Even identical twins, issuing from the same egg, can vary; for instance, they never possess identical fingerprints or dispositions...
...Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Stearn...