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...toast the freshmen's prophet, Henry Moses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Christmas Blessing | 12/15/1978 | See Source »

...religious enterprises, of course, are liable to be damned and dismissed as "cults." The term is pejorative: cult suggests a band of fierce believers who have surrendered themselves to obscure doctrine and a dangerous prophet. Yet some religions that are institutions now, more permanent and stable than most governments, began as cults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Lure of Doomsday | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...Gaza shall be forsaken," warned the Old Testament Prophet Zephaniah. "Woe unto the inhabitants of the seacoast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: On the Strip: Homeless in Gaza | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

That was with 10:44 to play. For the next 602 seconds Cozza was indeed a prophet, but then again, no human could have foretold the hysteria of those final 42 ticks of the Stadium clock...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Ten Years Ago | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

...together, form a body of work hard to beat for reckless honesty and his own kind of compound romanticism, which can veer sharply from sentimental to sulfuric at the bend of a lyric. Dylan both mocked and gloried in his informal ordination as a generation's prophet. Young, fully as ambitious in his music, kept closer to the ground than Dylan and sneaked into rock's pantheon like a highwayman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dylan and Young on the Road | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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