Word: prophetize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preserved for philosophy its touch with things practical. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was "the child of Darwin and the brother of Bismarck." He sought to "correct" his pious, feminine nature by glorifying ruthless masculinity, the survival of the strongest. He ascended the Engadine and sent down his poetic prophet, "Zarathustra," to announce the death of the gods, the birth of supermen and the doctrine, "live dangerously." He was last of the Romantics. And so to contemporary Europeans, who, while not Romantics, are expressing a fresh revolt against materialism as left by Spencer and his French equivalents, the Positivists. Henri Bergson...
...Rainmaker (William Collier Jr., Georgia Hale, Ernest Torrence). Behind this attractive title blooms only a fair film. It is a story of a jockey-called the rainmaker because he was a weather prophet-a onetime girl of the dance halls, and the old toothpick chewer who owns the dance hall. The toothpick chewer loses the girl to the jockey. Pounded in to stir the nerves are an epidemic, a fire and, naturally, a heavy flood of rain...
Possibilities. The extreme nebulosity of the Califate, in a legal sense, does not prevent thousands of ignorant Mohammedan peasants from manifesting a desire to fight in the name of the Prophet under the banner of almost anyone who is judiciously proclaimed and trumpeted as Calif...
...danger that a well propagandized new Calif would become the focus of troublesome "holy wars" might well cause the following Great Powers to "take steps": Great Britain, if the "Green Mantle of the Prophet" should descend upon King Fuad of Egypt, King Feisal of Irak or the Aga Kahn; Italy, if Sheik Achmet of the Senussites should receive the "Sacred Sword" and begin swishing it near Italian Tripoli; France, if the "Holy Standard" (the third emblem of the Calif) should be unfurled in the Riff by Abd-El-Krim, or by one of the Sultans in the vicinity of Syria...
...Goldmark Reve Angelique Rubenstein Fantasia from "The Tales of Hoffman" Offenbach Suite from "Shulamith" Goldfaden Scherzo from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn Fantasy on two Hebrew Folk Tunes Levinson Eili, Eili Arranged by Jacchia From Cradel to Chuppe Gideon-Jacchia Waltz, "The Skaters" Waldtenfel Coronation March from "The Prophet" Meyerbeer