Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Peñaranda's Washington visit a bid for a Bolivian port on the Pacific (Arica on Chile's northern boundary). They recalled the poetic prayer addressed to Vice President Wallace during his recent visit by the La Paz daily Ultima Hora: "Oh, Henry Wallace, Prophet and Redeemer, Philosopher and friend of man . . . the oldest country of the South now hears the voice of Hirakocha, the God of the Andes: 'People of the mountains, look to the Ocean.... If the Ocean does not come to reach you, you should go and seek...
Thus Bernard Iddings Bell, gadfly of the Episcopal Church, introduces his latest book, The Church in Disrepute (Harper; $1.50). Bell is a modern Episcopal Jeremiah who, speaking in cultivated accents, excoriates the thing he loves-the Church -and has attracted his own, modern version of the prophet's unpopularity...
...people blundering and groping and floundering in the dark of churches and schools and clubs and societies, associations and councils and committees and conventions, distressed and disturbed and deceived and devoured by money-hungry . . . leeches, preyed on by facile force of state and fad . . . by false prophet and holy believer...
...fancy production record General Mills is modest, even refuses to say who gets the credit. But one man stands out-glad-handing Harry A. Bullis, who started to learn the flour business as a mill laborer, in 20 years was auditor, comptroller, secretary and executive vice-president. An amateur prophet, Orator Harry Bullis in May 1940 publicly predicted the U.S. would be at war sooner than expected, started pushing the world's largest flour miller into munitions work long before any mill-sized war contracts were in sight. Fortnight ago General Mills directors gave Harry Bullis a well-earned...
...Soprano Marjorie Lawrence and the Budapest Quartet. The small audience politely applauded the work of Boston-born Walter Piston (Quintet for Flute and Strings), Brooklyn-born Aaron Copland (Birthday Piece, On Cuban Themes For Two Pianos), French-born Darius Milhaud (string quartet), California-born Frederick Jacobi (songs about the prophet Nehemiah), Czech-born Bohuslav Martinu (Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano). Hit of the evening came at the program's close with Russian-born Louis Gruenberg's Variations on a Popular Theme. It nearly brought discreet cheers. Composer Gruenberg's theme was The Daring Young...