Word: prophetizer
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...wise-guy anchor of Weekend Update for six years on Saturday Night Live, Dennis Miller came across as a smug, overage frat boy. Now, sporting a full beard and a fresh dose of righteous zeal, he's the angry prophet of the airwaves -- Howard Beale with a bottle of Evian. On his new late-night HBO show, Miller delivers well-tuned rants on topics like the cult of celebrity. "Michael Jackson," he fumes, "one of the five weirdest people on the planet earth -- and the other four are his brothers. And while we're on the subject...
...shows perform during reading period:The Philadelphia Story and The Prophet and the Janitor finished their runs, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club bulletin listed openings last weekend for only. A House Divided and No Exit (which was not reviewed). Finding out the names of the directors and designers for only one or two new productions should not be a problem...
...with ease, style and great fun, if only for want of some structural progression. Einstein's idea parade meanders and circles with on real way of ending plausibly, so later in the piece, a dark-eyed dream boy from the future shows up in blue suede shoes as a prophet of change. No point to that, either, other than to see where the future is heading, I suppose, and to conclude that meaningful dialogue between the arts and sciences is possible. But if you have heard this theory befoe, please let the rest of the class answer first...
Camus's refusal to seek sanctuary in such abstractions marked him as an outsider while he lived and a prophet now, in an age of discredited dogmas. Reviewing Le Premier Homme, Paris' Le Monde asked, "Can we now rediscover Camus without political and historical prejudices, in his quest for truth?" The answer will spread with the translations, and it seems...
...Life is what happens when you're off making other plans."--John "The Walrus" Lennon, singer, prophet, painter...