Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is an act of violence," wrote the man who was last week hailed as Prophet, "by a perjured Tsar and his Government of bashi-bazouks. A mere 2,500,000 Finns cannot naturally dream of a successful revolt, but we, all of us Russian citizens, must think of the dishonor that burdens us. We are still such slaves ourselves that we can be employed to reduce other nations to slavery. We still submit to a Government that crushes us with the cruelty of the hangman and that uses Russian soldiers to destroy the liberty of others...
...boom of brass bands, Republican doctors worked feverishly over the moribund GOP in Cleveland, June 1936. The patient stirred briefly, collapsed in November. Dreary days followed for the Republican Party. The little flicker of life wavered, almost went out. Yet up-&-down the land plodded one yea-saying, stubborn prophet, preaching Principles, an old-fashioned sermon that was drowned out in the pounding, recurrent crescendos of New Deal swing music...
...running for their lives to the hills, threw him a scornful glance over their shoulders. In the lean days that followed, these harried GOPartisans came out of their fastnesses only to make hungry forays on the fat New Deal outposts. They had little time or inclination to bother with Prophet Hoover...
...country; among the second, those who have been undeservedly neglected in spite of their excellence and meaning. In doing this for music, you will be doing as much for yourself. You can grow, as once you so richly promised, to the full stature of a missionary and prophet. You may even suffer a little toward martyrdom, which never hurt a true artist. You will be remembered as a brave and generous leader, not as a tired repeater of empty ritualistic formulae...
...tempests in a tea glass that hiss up from time to time among Soviet scientists. For in Stalinist Russia science is under the sway of political philosophy, and Soviet political philosophy is a religion-complete with scriptures (the writings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin), a living prophet, heresies, an Inquisition-and a God. The God-or, more exactly, the Holy Ghost-is the principle of dialectical materialism, which in Marxist eyes explains the working of the world, the whole of human history. In the U. S. S. R. practically all the biological sciences, including anthropology, must conform to this...