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...Philosopher] Alfred North Whitehead once said to me: 'What America needs is not a philosopher but a prophet.' What I see and what I hope for the Jewish community in America is that it will give birth to a school of prophets and rise toward its own spiritual potential as a holy people. And this will have a profound effect on America and on the whole world. Even a tiny minority, when they are spiritually dedicated, can have a deep influence on the world around them-like the Essenes among the ancient Hebrews, or the Pharisees...
...dinner of the Newton (Ill.) High School graduating class in June 1913, Class Prophet Jessie Swem arose to make her predictions. She had no trouble divining the future for Frank E. Martin, who had worked a couple of summer vacations for the Illinois Central Railroad. "He will become a vice president of the Illinois Central," she said. "Some day he will come back to see us in his private car, and he will invite the members of his old high-school class to have dinner with...
...Dilemma. Prophet Mann is lugubrious, but Novelist Mann is at his most urbane. He still writes with the literary craft of a master, and this time he happily avoids the philosophical asides that have cumbered earlier books. With its playfully archaic style and ironic tone, The Holy Sinner reads like a book written simply for the pleasure of telling a good story...
...give the story an upbeat ending that its ancient chronicler overlooked, Scripter Dunne confronts the sinful David with a rebellious populace, a drought in the land and an angry Raymond Massey, who, as Nathan the Prophet, speaks loudly and carries a big stick. All can be made well-and obviously will be-if David will return to the prayerful, God-fearing ways of his youth. While David prays, the movie unaccountably wanders off on a tangent in flashback, interrupting its climax for a blow-by-blow account of how young David slew Goliath, played by hulking...
...Christendom's and out contact of with this Greek renewal philosophy flowed Aquinas' philosophy and, later, the Renaissance. From the first the Ulema had been suspicious of all legal and ethical judgments based upon reason. The learned doctors held that the Koran and the sayings of the Prophet were the only sources of truth...