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What chiefly impelled him to this view was ministering to a parish in Detroit from 1915 to 1928. He saw the Ford Motor Co. as a devouring god Baal that dehumanized and depersonalized man, and Henry Ford I as a false prophet who "promised to solve all social problems but aggravated most of them." As Niebuhr saw it, Ford's boast of a $5-a-day wage was nothing but a sham, since most of his workers were employed only sporadically and had no insurance against unemployment, illness and old age. In the same pragmatic way, the slaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theology: Taking Inventory | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...Deputy Defense Minister Shimon Peres, 42-and wound up naming a complete, 120-man list of candidates for the Knesset. Furious, Eshkol has fought back with the full force of the Mapai organization and with scathing newspaper advertisements that denounce "the old man at Sde Boker" as the prophet who, in the Talmudic phrase, "prophesied and knew not whereof he prophesied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Back into Battle | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

...feels like applauding Farmer even in private conversation. He is big, broad-shouldered man with the deep, forceful voice of a Biblical prophet. He is immensely articulate, though tending to hold up a reserve of measured conviction. Often he seems preoccupied and one can guess that he's ruminating on some new plan or old problem in CORE's operation...

Author: By Geoffrey L. Thomas, | Title: James Farmer | 10/6/1965 | See Source »

Schwartz reviewed NSA's role as "the unheeded prophet of higher education" and received a deafening ovation when he declared...

Author: By Hendrik Hertxberg, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) MADISON, WISC. | Title: Wisconsin Congress Most Liberal in History of NSA | 9/28/1965 | See Source »

Emerson called him "the greatest writer who ever lived." Claudel considered him a "great solemn ass." Jung pronounced him "a prophet." Evelyn Waugh dismissed him as a "wayward dabbler in philosophy." Valery said he was "one of the luckiest throws that fate has ever allowed the human race to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To Die and To Become! | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

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