Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mohammedanism sets up one God, one Prophet; Hinduism worships a great pantheon of gods. Hindus worship images, and fill their temples with ikons, which offend Moslems deeply. Their mosques must depend on color, material, texture for their beauty, and all decoration is pure geometry. To the Moslem a pig is unclean, and by throwing in a slice of bacon, a Hindu can defile a whole mosque; but a Moslem eats and sacrifices cows, which are sacred to Hindus. Hinduism is passive ; Mohammedanism is proselytizing - which perhaps accounts for the fact that in most Moslem-Hindu clashes, Moslems usually seem...
Reporters scurrying to check up found that current U. S. diplomacy looked good in Finland and Russia. Thin, hardheaded, 47-year-old Ambassador Steinhardt in Moscow got a reputation for keenness as a lawyer, a trade expert, a ballyhoo-proof prophet of the 1929 crash, long before he won a diplomatic reputation in South America. Genial, portly Arthur Schoenfeld in Helsinki, a diplomatic trouble shooter, was sent to Finland two and a half years...
...Standing before a painting, preferably a high-priced one, he would mutter. "Pffft! Such crude pigments! My, such a stencil technique-brr-let me get away!" He stopped other gallery-goers to tell them he was the world's greatest artist, passed out handbills describing himself as "Mesmerist-Prophet and Mystic, Humorist Galore, Ex All Round Athletic Sportsman (to 1889), Scientist supreme: all ologies, Ex Fancy amateur Dancer. . . ." He wrote crank letters to the newspapers. His letterhead: "Mahatma Dr. Louis M. Eilshemius, M.A. etc., Mightiest Mind and Wonder of the Worlds, Supreme Parnassian and Grand Transcendant Eagle...
From his young manhood, no prophet could have predicted Bolívar's future. Heir to one of the biggest fortunes in Venezuela (his childhood income was around $20,000 a year), this slight, hot-tempered, handsome young Creole aristocrat was the pampered darling of his family, at 17 began his conquests in the salons and boudoirs of Europe (Queen Maria Luisa of Spain was rumored one of the many). Then suddenly he left on a walking tour with his old tutor, a votary of Rousseau and the Greeks. Three months later, in Italy, Bolívar made...
...star cast, but an animated cartoon based on a German fairy tale, Snow White, in which dwarfs, gentle beasts, magic, and witchcraft were combined for the pleasure of children. Still less could they have visualized Pinocchio (see cut, p. 33) which promised to be more successful. No prophet of 1929, peering into the coming decade, could foresee the growth and acceptance of a native American art-the Iowa landscapes of Grant Wood, serene and sunny; the turbulent Missourians of Thomas Benton (see cut, p. 31), calling up the hard-eyed, banjo-playing, riverboat life of the Central South; the innocent...