Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women, who had challenged the words of the Prophet, had traveled to Egypt by train and plane in search of emancipation. They were seated calmly, if a little self-consciously, in Cairo's ornate Royal Opera House. None wore the flowing charshaf (Moslem robe). Like Egypt's royal princesses, and other upper-class Moslem women, none hid her good looks behind a harem veil. Married delegates had discarded the Arabic word for wife aqila (the tethered one), in favor of qarina (partner). For some of the delegates this was the first congress their governments had ever allowed...
F.D.R. as Prophet...
...memory serves me the President, in a speech about five years ago, made a statement to the effect that our front line is on the Rhine. If I am correct it would seem that he has qualified for the role of, at least, a minor prophet...
...Sunday afternoon in 1923 his most ambitious work, The Prophet, was read in Manhattan's Church of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie. In the audience was Barbara Young, who then was working in a bookstore in the Brevoort Hotel, has had a poem published in the New York Times almost every week since 1922. She became the most ardent Gibran follower and at his death in 1931, his literary executor. This Man from Lebanon, her memorial volume to the Master, suffers from its hushed reverence before Kahlil Gibran's slightest words and actions...
Best-Seller. The Prophet sold only 1,100 copies in the first year. Then it began to go. Twenty years later its overall sales totaled 300,000. Last year it was Knopf's next best seller (60,000 copies) to John Hersey's A Bell for Adano. Since Gibran's death a committee of 40 Bsherri townspeople has collected his sizable royal ties, devoting them to charity. (One royalty check came back endorsed by all 40.) Unable to pay them because of the war, Knopf has accumulated $20,000 for the committee...