Word: propheteers
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...designed to inaugurate De Gaulle's presidential campaign. But there come moments in France when political passion and factional rivalry are briefly overshadowed by a sense of history and literature. One such occurred when Andre Malraux, De Gaulle's Minister of Cultural Affairs and leading literary prophet, delivered a eulogy for Moulin that virtually all political factions hailed as a masterpiece...
...Klee had already probed, as he put it, "beyond impressionism" and had become an unwitting prophet of the surrealism to come. More important, after many self-doubting years of dabbling at writing and moonlighting as a violinist, he declared during a Tunisian trip: "Color and I are one. I am a painter." Once he had wondered: "Am I God?" Now he was sure that his creative fire exceeded "white heat. In my work, I do not belong to the species, but am a cosmic point of reference...
...land of the high flags" is what the prophet Zoroaster called the ancient country of the Afghans. The land of the high barriers is what it seemed to U.S. Schoolteacher Rosanne Klass in 1951, when she settled in the capital of Kabul. The barriers were purdah, which segregated man from woman, and the crypto-snobbery that kept the foreign colony aloof from the Afghan people. They were barriers, it would seem, that would last as long as the Koran and Kipling, except that Miss Klass did not come all the way from Cedar Rapids to be barred by them...
...aged, decrepit match-seller who haunts the forsaken site from dawn to dusk with no prospect of selling matches. Edward invites the old man into the house to have it out with him. The matchseller looks like a cross between a Skid Row derelict and a desert-baked Bible prophet, and he remains silent throughout the play. For Edward, the matchseller is the mirror image of his fears and failures, and in self-defensive, self-incriminating monologues, Edward crumbles like...
...early prophet of the century's sexual revolution, in prose and by example, D. H. Lawrence attracted swarms of intense female admirers, several of whom rushed into print right after his death with memoirs whose burden was that only the author understood "Lorenzo's" real self, and only his cloddish wife Frieda stood in the way of some blazing fusion that would make sexual, if not literary, history...