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...last week's 14-12 loss to Boston College, the ends proved Lamar to be a pretty good prophet, as they caught 10 of the 15 passes that Richard Zimmerman lofted into the air. And some of these snags were sheer acrobatics...
Louis Harris answered criticisms of his apparent failures in the the primaries by saying that the job of a poll was that of a reporter and not that of a prophet. By polling a given number of people, Harris said, he can determine how the country feels about an issue at the time the poll is taken. In a situation where feelings change rapidly, however, polls cannot be taken close enough to the election to reflect the full impact of the changes. Harris and Dr. Gallup were able to predict in New Hampshire that a trend was running towards Lodge...
...Maria Karnilova) at his elbow, and God's voice in his inner ear. He quivers before his wife and quips with his God. He plans to arrange his daughters' marriages in the time-honored way. They plead love. "Tradition," thunders Tevye, stabbing the air with an irate prophet's forefinger and then lowering his hand like a falling leaf, in wry self-mockery. The eldest daughter marries a tailor without a sewing machine. The second follows her student-revolutionary fiance to Siberia. The third elopes with a Gentile. Tevye's buffetings are preludes to a communal...
...King & Prophet. Some of the questions were easy enough for a Sunday school class-such as "Who smote a lion and a bear?" (answer: Samson) or "Give the names of two Biblical shepherds, one of whom became a king, the other a prophet" (David and Amos). Others demanded an almost photographic memory of the prophetic books and chronicles. Example: "Give six instances where a man or a woman prevented war or bloodshed." By the time of the second round, half of the contestants had dropped out of competition; Mitchell and Krasniansky were neck and neck for the lead...
...some of them are stirring up a kind of revolution. Beset by economic problems that stem largely from their doctrinaire Marxism, the nations of the Soviet bloc are turning to many capitalistic practices that they once roundly condemned. Last week in the pages of Pravda, Russia's . chief prophet of the "new" economics, Kharkov University Economist Evsey Liberman, renewed his campaign for adoption of the profit motive, calling for the creation of a new government agency to spread the idea through the Soviet economy...