Word: prophetizer
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...despite a surprise stay of execution -- a gift of $1.3 million from Jerry Collins, a short, gruff dog-track owner from Sarasota, Fla. ("It's very seldom I ever go to church," said the philanthropic Collins. "I help them all.") Roberts, feeling perkier after the donation, proclaimed Bakker a "prophet of God," who had been victimized by an "unholy trio of forces," presumably referring to Swaggart, the Assemblies of God and the press. Their attack, said Roberts, was "unlike any in the history of the world to come against the body of Christ...
Welcome to the longest-running jury trial in U.S. history, now into its fourth year. "It should be over before the end of this year," Judge Goldenhersh says wearily. "But I'm a poor prophet. When it started on Feb. 22, 1984, I told the jury on advice of counsel the case might take six months to a year...
...loud, both that which we often do not even admit to ourselves--the private emotions--as well as those economic and racial relations by which this society seeks to regulate our lives, the invisible network within which we are bound, and which few will admit exists. Reed has the prophet's gift of vision. He tells us not only who we are, and where we as a society...
...guardians of this ideal are the Baha'is, followers of the Persian prophet Baha'u'llah and the Baha'i faith, which at 142 years old, is considered to be one of the world's newest religions. Since then the numbers of his followers have continued to grow, and now number close to three million. Although their numbers are not comparable to other world faiths, Baha'is are widespread and have representatives in far-flung corners of the world...
Freud, Marx and Einstein, raiders of thought and institutions at the outset of our century, are beginning to fade as influences on conduct. The relative universe of which Einstein brought news no longer frightens people into a sense of personal powerlessness. Marx has been discredited in public as the prophet of a future that works only at the expense of human self-regard. Freud one either takes or leaves: your age may think him a brilliant curiosity, an alchemist with style. In different ways, all three helped to persuade several generations that fate either was not in their hands...