Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duties one to four: repetition of the Moslem reed (Allah is Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet), prayer, almsgiving, fasting during the month of Ramadan...
With Madame Curie, the new cinematic element embodied by Miss Garson is finally isolated. The Ideal Woman is at last presented in simple cinemapotheosis. Greer Garson is Her greatest, indeed Her exclusive, Prophet...
...reaching consequences which followed tardily but irresistibly after he was gone-his life was one of the most successful ever lived by man. Three others, and only three, are comparable to it in worldwide influence: Gautmma's self-sacrificing sojourn among men, the stormy career of the Arab Prophet, and the 'sinless years' which found their close on Golgotha...
Unfortunately for the prophet, in 1844 he had to revise the calculation and his fickle flock deserted him. A group of prominent Bostonians bought the building and converted it into an opera house after changing the name to the "Howard Athenaeum." There, in 1846, genuine Italian opera had its New England premiere with a performance of Verdi's "Ernani," and Sheridan's "Rivals" played to toney audiences from Beacon Hill until a fire gutted the wooden auditorium...
Asch's Paul is the brilliantly dynamic prophet and organizer of the early Christian Church. He was driven by an ineluctable faith, by visions no less intense. No danger stopped him. But St. Paul was not only an evangelist. He was pugnacious and something of a politician. Says Novelist Asch: "The center of his world was his 'I' . . . which measured, judged and defined." Paul lacked that "soft, winning goodness, that graciousness of speech, that warmth which characterized his fellow apostle, Peter." On the contrary, he was hard and ascetic. He was also epileptic, and saw many...