Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These twistings and turnings, suggests Biographer Kraus, result from the fact that Winston Churchill is a minor politician, but a major prophet and inspired visionary. At the best moments of his life, thinks Kraus, Churchill functioned as England's voice and conscience...
Deliberately Willkie had divested himself of any possible glamor; distrusting heroics and grandiosity, he had stripped his speeches to bare, plain statements. But the people who had shouted "We Want Willkie!" were not hoping for a simple, humble fellow but for a great, forceful leader, a torchbearer, a prophet, a hero...
...Modernist Architect Walter Gropius invited Klee to teach drawing at his famous Bauhaus technical art school in Weimar. In the middle '20s Parisian surrealists hailed him as a prophet. Frenchmen, usually supercilious toward German art, began collecting his infantile drawings. In 1931 Klee went on to be a professor at the Düsseldorf Academy. Meanwhile, U. S. modern-art connoisseurs bought his ectoplasmic scratchings at $750 a canvas...
...World War II, III. . . :) the coming Caesars, victors over Capital; 3) declining birth rates; 4) decay of art from high style to petty cult problems; 5) budgets of billions not millions; 6) suicidal crumbling of democracy, etc. He did not predict imminent collapse of Western civilization. Said solemn Prophet Spengler: "We are still many generations short of that point...
Even such professional cynics as newsmen knew that no mere love of office or appetite for acclaim could drive a man to the punishment Willkie was taking daily -not the boos, but the grinding strain of the campaign. "A punch-drunk prophet," said one newshawk...