Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wickard's plea and promise this week seemed on the way to fulfillment. No prophet, practical, dirt-farming Claude Wickard might have made a prophecy, too, about the post-war possibilities contained in row on row of bottles in Department of Agriculture laboratories-test tubes of white, yellow, green, grey, brown powders that, doused with water, again turn into Irish and sweet potatoes, spinach, cabbage, carrots. Thus it may be possible for U.S. housewives to store a 2-3 months' food supply in a kitchen-drawer...
...Prophet and high priest of this new vision is Dudley P. South, research engineer of Higgins Industries Inc., whose torpedo boats and tank-carrying invasion boats are already important United Nations weapons (TIME, May 4). Within four or five weeks Dudley South expects to have a few experimental models of Higgins' new boat-trucks to play with up & down the Orinoco, in the hope of developing them for big-time passenger and freight use when peace comes...
Foxy Mr. Farley. They could point to sly, cunning Jim Farley, the political prophet, who carefully, genially went about New York State encouraging Republicans to run Tom Dewey. The very ice water in Jim Farley's veins warmed up at the thought of Dewey, who has no appeal to the interventionist majority of New York, no appeal to labor and liberal groups, and who is personally disliked by many of the hardheaded local bosses who are perforce supporting him. The thought of such a candidate, with weathervane views on all important matters, running against his own handpicked Democrat, John...
This compact, brilliant critical biography is 1) an excellent life of Walt Whitman, 2) a just, if merciless, evaluation of him as poet, mystic and prophet of democracy, 3) an arduous, provocative sermon on the nature and responsibility of democracy and of art. Unlike most Whitman critics, Author Fausset avoids the extremes of most books about Whitman. He neither damns nor admires Whitman for being a homosexual. He does not claim that Whitman's poetry is as great as Homer's or merely a free verse Sears, Roebuck catalogue. He simply tries to explain what Whitman achieved...
...even most Russians. The few attempts made at restoration were restricted to dubbing in missing hands and faces. One of the Soviet Government's first acts was to set up the National Central Restoration Workshops, which are still busy cleaning off the accumulation of centuries. Occasionally a bearded prophet, scraped off, becomes a sweet-faced Virgin...