Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...politicians but to uomo qualunque (the common man). Last week a stream of converts-horny-handed artisans, lacquered Army officers, silk-stockinged girls, broad-veiled nuns, clerks and plain common men- were beating a path up a back street of Rome to the house of the prophet...
...Prophet H. G. Wells, 79, who foresaw the atom bomb 31 years ago, predicted the imminent end of mankind. In his latest book, Mind at the End of its Tether, written last year and serialized in British and U.S. newspapers last week, he wrote: "Homo sapiens, as he has been pleased to call himself is, in his present form, played out. The stars in their courses have turned against man and he has to give place to some other animal, better adapted to the fate that closes in. This new animal may be of an entirely alien strain...
...most serious charge against Mary was that she had lured Shelley away from his first wife, Harriet Westbrook. Harriet was then carrying a child of Shelley's. After Shelley, Mary and Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont, had set up housekeeping in London, the Prophet of Perfect...
There was one strongly dissenting voice. John Foster Dulles, the Republican Party's prophet of internationalism, had been the chief adviser to the U.S. delegation at the San Francisco conference, and he had similarly served Secretary Byrnes in London. Last week Lawyer Dulles returned to Manhattan, and said...
Walter Lippmann argued that the more quickly and thoroughly the information was disseminated, the easier it would be to keep track of other nations' progress. Ely Culbertson, the bridge expert turned international prophet, had a daring plan. The nub: give a beefed-up international organization (not U.N.O.) surveillance over atomic and heavy-weapon production, plus enough atomic and other armed force to quell any potential aggressor...