Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Williams' prize, which carries a stipend of $500, was for an essay on "Sophocles the Prophet"; an essay entitled "Simmias" won Roos $200, and Hallinan's third price of $100 was for "A Study of Carlyle's Historical Theory and Technique...
Last week Sartre, the high prophet of existentialism (TIME, Jan. 28), gave New Yorkers who read Town & Country an esoteric's cloud-high view of their metropolis, packed tight with steel, stone and bricks. Wrote...
Back in the days when a picket line bordered upon open revolution, the turbulent Wobblies and their hulking, emotional prophet, Big Bill Haywood, scattered dreams of industrial uprising through dark East Coast mills and the rough timberlands of the West. Police cracked their heads and vigilantes attacked their halls as citadels of anarchy...
...wave of Progressivism toppled almost as soon as it surged. Many of the old Progressive ideals became fact under the New Deal, and Bob La Follette Jr. was no fierce-eyed prophet. A Democratic-Republican coalition broke Progressive control in Wisconsin; Phil was defeated as governor and only the backing of Franklin Roosevelt saved Bob Jr.'s Senate seat in the election...
Unending afflictions qualified 36-year old Teppe as the prophet of "implacable pessimism." As a child he was constantly ill and morose. He lost the sight of an eye in his 20s in a way no doctor could explain. Since then he has been plagued by rheumatism, sciatica, asthma, stomach ailments, severe headaches, and extreme insomnia. Dressed in pallbearer black, he drags out his days on a birdlike diet of bread crusts and boiled vegetables, in a barren, unheated apartment, aggressively campaigning to stimulate public interest in despondency.* Teppe has even offered a prize for the best Dolorist novel...