Word: prophetic
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...Wright, a poet from the bad neighborhoods of Compton, was a prophet. In 1989, the group N.W.A., which he co-founded, produced one of the most important songs of the past decade, "Fuck tha Police," Police officers around the country objected strongly to the song; an FBI official sent N.W.A. a threatening letter...
Brinkley sketches out the beginning of the era of mass consumption, recounting how America evolved from an economy driven by production to one stimulated by consumer spending. The prophet of this change was the British economist John Maynard Keynes, who preached that the way out of the U.S.'s 1937 recession was the triggering of demand, not the revival of investment. This idea was new to the industrial age, which had always followed Say's Law of Markets in asserting that production drove consumption...
Hanks could be a parodist or a prophet when he says, "I guarantee that, when their first film premieres, everyone will say, 'This is it? This is what these three geniuses have come up with?' Unless it immediately enters the pantheon as one of the three highest-grossing films of all time, everybody will ask what's the big deal...
...heavens were opened. 3 And the people heard the mighty call of the LORD, and carried their umbrellas as the LORD had commanded. 4 It rained upon the Earth for forty days and forty nights, and the people grew weary and cried to the LORD. 5 And the great prophet, whose name was Willard Scott, son of Bryant, spoke to the people. 6 And Willard the Prophet said unto the people: 7 I have heard the word of the LORD. And he has said unto me that there is a 60% chance of sun with some scattered clouds before...
DIED. HOWARD W. HUNTER, 87, the 14th president, prophet, seer and revelator of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; in Salt Lake City, Utah. A former corporate lawyer, Clayton was the first Mormon president born in this century; his nine-month term was the shortest in church history...