Word: prophetizer
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...lilies of the field, as I remember were not required to have a demonstrable purpose. Why cannot history be studied and written and read for its own sake as the record of human behavior, the most fascinating subject of all? Insistence on a purpose turns the historian into a prophet--and that is another profession...
Similarly, would it be too much to ask that Yasir Arafat, as the self-proclaimed prophet and dictator of the Palestinian movement, take responsibility for Sartawi's murder--or, for that matter, for the slaughter of Israeli athletes at Munich in 1972? Should Arafat be made to answer for the lives of innocent civilians he expended as convenient air cover during the battle of Beirut, by cunningly hiding his men among them in hospitals and apartment buildings? Unfortunately, as an unclected leader. Arafat is free to do as the pleases. But if the PLO continues to claim sole authority...
...Gerry Bamman) defines himself by what he does and not by what he is. And what he does is always tainted by easy accommodation and the habit of incessant compromise. He moves from trading slaves out of Charleston, S.C., and shipping pagan idols to China to reigning as a prophet in the Moroccan desert, finally ending up crowned "the Emperor of Self in a Cairo mad house, with a wreath of straw...
Like an Old Testament prophet, Deane Hinton, our Ambassador to El Salvador, confronted the oppressors with their evil [Nov. 22]. He got the usual response: instead of repentance, a hardness of heart. The Salvadoran businessmen deserve the destruction that is coming upon them. Leon Schaddelee Ben ton Harbor, Mich...
...perhaps the most easily explained inconsistency. He was born Donald Jackson but changed it in the early 70s to Muhammad Kenyatta. Not a Muslim, he ruefully notes that his name makes him unique among Baptist preachers. But he says that he chose the name, not because of the Muslim prophet, but in honor of Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Black Muslim movement, as a sign of Black nationalism...