Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tatum is his prophet...
...Professor Laski is as much political tactician as prophet. He believes that with the war's end popular readiness for extreme measures and experiment will fade. But where conservatives see this as a return, at least in part, to the traditional freedoms of enterprise, with a release of creative impulses that state control shackles, Professor Laski labors under the desperate fear that the end of experiment will mean a reaction of exhaustion and apathy. He insists that capitalist economy be removed while the war is in progress; if it is not, he believes that nothing can prevent disillusionment, upheaval...
...crumpled heap on top of a "scope." I guess one of the Master Minds had knocked all the sparks out of him, because when I approached, he bowed reverently toward the East in an oriental fashion and muttered "Chaffee is the only God and Tatum is his prophet...
...party in Indiana and father of Bob Gates in the Senior class, has finally promoted a picture of Wendell Willkie for the Hoosier State's Hall of Fame. After Willkie's book began nearing the million mark in the sales column . . . Indiana has decided to accept him as a prophet at home, since he has become one to the rest of the world. His book will be the third non-fraction book since 1901 to sell over a million copies...
...sort of ikon and devises rationalizations to make its actions square with Marx's teachings. But most genuine Marxists have been driven, by the failure of the Bolshevist Revolution to lead to a Marxist society, to re-examine history. They want to discover, if possible, just where their prophet was wrong, through what loopholes in the Marxian theory Joseph Stalin...