Word: prophetizer
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...average Matisses got as complacent as most Renoirs. Indeed, some of Matisse's greatest work was done in those years. Why was this acknowledged so grudgingly, or not at all? For "ideological reasons," Co-Curator Fourcade argues, springing from a "modernist obsession" with Matisse's largely posthumous role as prophet of Paris-New York abstraction. If you assume that art history culminates in abstract art, then you may feel betrayed if your hero's work goes from flatness to depth, from a space built from blocks of color to one evoked by the illusion of light, from schematic drawing...
...thought of doing all these things while serving coffee to customers and washing their dirty dishes. This night in the Tasty was my chance to a prophet for the next generation. Karl had given me an apron at midnight, he had agreed a couple of days earlier to let me work the night shift with him, and by 3 a.m. I not only thought I was a expert at my job as coffee master but that I was a genuine character as will...
...Robertson, the plan is as intricate as a biblical genealogy. The televangelist from Virginia, though campaigning for months with a prophet's passion, wants to hold on as long as possible to his electronic pulpit at the Christian Broadcasting Network. Once he is a formal candidate, he will have to step down because of federal equal-time requirements. At the same time, he must try to energize the diverse evangelical community behind him. So last week he rented Constitution Hall in Washington for an elaborate production of music and exhortation beamed by satellite to invited audiences at 216 sites. Having...
...effective judge has the obligation to reflect the nation's fundamental values in each difficult decision while protecting the basic principles of the Constitution against the "winds of the hour," said one of Israel's Supreme Court Justices Aharon Barak. "A judge must be a historian, philosopher and prophet...
...southern Lebanon of the Shi'ites, the Muslims who now make up 40% of the country's population of 3 million. Long an impoverished rural people, Shi'ite followers in Iran and the Arab world split from the dominant Sunni Muslims over doctrinal issues concerning the descendants of the prophet Muhammad. In recent years the Shi'ites have waged a successful struggle for political equality and economic well-being. With success has come unprecedented power, and power has created a cauldron of shifting alliances and abrupt betrayals within their own ranks...