Word: propheteers
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...Turkish-held Hejaz Railway (and mourned he had not made it 80), an Englishman hailed by the Arabs as El Aurens, who in 2½ years had led the revolt in the desert from the Red Sea port of Jidda to the gates of Damascus. Then, with his chosen prophet, Emir Feisal, about to be crowned king of Syria, Lawrence disappeared as suddenly as he came, in what seemed a superb gesture of modesty and abdication...
...four men are as different in their relationship to the public as they are in their approach to the piano. While Rubinstein strides the stage with old-fashioned exuberance and verve, Serkin is more nearly the scholar, Horowitz the prophet, and Richter the mystic. At 16, Rubinstein's vision of the good life was "to sit next to a lovely woman in a concert hall and hold her hand and listen to Tchaikovsky"; with a gusto born of love, he has been clutching the hand of the public ever since. And although he has long since banished Tchaikovsky from...
...dearest dear." sang the baritone to the soprano at West Berlin's Deutsche Opera Berlin last week, "a triumph awaits you." As a prophet, Baritone Thomas Stewart was only half right. For their roles in Composer Giselher Klebe's opera Alkmene, a modern version of the Amphitryon legend, triumph awaited both Texas-born Stewart and his wife. Brooklyn-born Soprano Evelyn Lear. Raved the influential Frankfurter Algemeine: "What Evelyn Lear as Alkmene and Thomas Stewart as Jupiter attained belongs among the most glorious achievements in all Berlin opera...
...rhythms into "conversational" cadences a la Jason Robards, Jr., Lincoln Center's opening season may well turn out worse than the Loeb's. Whatever the future of Lincoln Center, and the American theatre, let us hope that it does not depend on the insight and vision of Elia the Prophet...
Relaxing in shorts and bare feet, Israel's prickly Premier David Ben-Gurion, 74, celebrated the eve of the 5,722nd (since the Creation) Jewish New Year by peering into his crystal ball for a Tel Aviv tabloid. "I am no prophet," cautioned Ben-Gurion as he hunched knees to chin, yoga style, to prophesy, "but if what we call the cold war is ended-and I hope it will be without the world exploding-in 20 years America will be a welfare state and Russia will be a democratic country...