Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prophet of Doom. Sitting in his huge office in the United Mine Workers' new, half -million -dollar headquarters, John Lewis thinks expansive thoughts and formulates them into the resounding sentences so suited to the undulating rumble of his voice: "The fabric of culture which has been built up by mankind through enduring centuries of painful toil and sacrifice is menaced today as never before. . . . America is menaced, not by a foreign foe that would storm its battlements, but by the more fearful enemy of domestic strife and savagery." Certain it is that Mr. Lewis' horizon is broad...
...book,* he predicted the invention of vast music-creating engines, envisioned a musical art in which present-day musical instruments and "interpretive" musicians would no longer be necessary. What this music of the future would sound like, and why anyone should want to create it or listen to it, Prophet Chavez left to his readers' imagination...
...still alive. He predicted hopefully that the Communists would be overthrown within two years. Last week he visited the U. S. again. People were surprised to find he was still alive. Asked by reporters when he expected the Communists to be overthrown, he replied: "I am no prophet...
With skill--for prophet-like, you also swayed...
...tempestuous. It may well be more popular than Mann's four-volume masterpiece. With most of its characters black & white sketches, Hearken unto the Voice rises to the heights of great literature only in the passages (which Author Werfel has lifted from the Old Testament) where the prophet thunders his denunciations of the evils of the world...