Word: prophetizer
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Where Mubarak differs from Sadat is in his approach to problem solving: a pragmatist is taking the place of a prophet. Says a Western diplomat who knows both men well: "Sadat was the pioneer and innovator. Mubarak will be the con-solidator." The President-designate has had 6½ years to study his new role, with Sadat as his intimate mentor. Sadat's visitors became accustomed to seeing the stocky, taciturn Mubarak sitting near the President, quietly taking notes. Whenever Sadat had one-on-one meetings, as at Camp David, he later briefed Mubarak minutely. "There was nothing...
...Christians of African descent, we pray that Blacks will awake from their leisure-intensive slumber and heed the rebuke of the prophet Amos...
...rather astonishingly asserts that "on the whole scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us." For Snow the agonizing irony is that these saintly men-Rutherford, "bored" by money; Bohr, "simply and genuinely kind"; Einstein, not only looking but be having like an Old Testament prophet-should end up being even indirectly responsible for Hiroshima...
...latest of some 400 works on Nostradamus since his death in 1566, Jean-Charles de Fontbrune's Nostradamus?Historian and Prophet is an interpretation with a twist: De Fontbrune analyzed the use and frequency of words with the help of a computer in his translation from 16th century French. Nostradamus' predictions, originally titled Centuries, are contained in 1,050 verses, mostly quatrains. He is said to have conceived his vague but troubling visions while staring into a brass bowl filled with water; he is otherwise best known as Charles IX's doctor. Published in November 1980, De Fontbrune's book...
Jewish Evangelist Esther Jungreis [June 15] is like a biblical prophet who inspires Jews to return to their heritage. I was an assimilated Jew. I had joined the Jews for Jesus and was on the verge of intermarriage. Jungreis personally guided me to discover the Jewish way of life so that I left the Jews for Jesus, canceled my planned intermarriage, and embraced the Jewish religion. She has kindled a passion for meaningful Jewish living in many dormant Jewish souls...