Word: prophetizer
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...there are almost as many posters of Nasser with his fiery eyes gazing down at the public as there are of the country's mercurial military strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Throughout much of the Arab world, in fact, the late Egyptian leader is passionately venerated as a modern prophet -but not, curiously, in his own country...
...country in the 17th century and fought for its independence in the 18th century hoped that if they held themselves to account, worked hard and demanded much of their children, salvation would eventually come and, too, be anticipated by signs here on earth: the obedient, pious child as a prophet. We have yet to relinquish that role for our children; they may not forecast heaven or hell for us, but they are all we seem to feel we have-and our obsession with them may be our way of saying that we place little stock in the lasting value...
...Prophet of the white-ethnic movement and founder-editor of EMPAC (Ethnic Millions Political Action Committee) is Michael Novak, 42, a Bayville, N.Y., Catholic intellectual and former seminarian, who hopes to shape the new white consciousness into a "creative and progressive force." Novak, author of The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics (1972), attributes traditional animosity between Catholic blue-collar whites and blacks to "elite Protestant politics" that pitted the two groups against each other in a war for economic survival...
...Silverman, author of "How Will I Feel Tomorrow?", yesterday called himself a "latter-day prophet" because of his "considerable work on the prediction of physical illness." Silverman said he can isolate ten "cues" which can predict physical illness before symptoms appear...
...Dylan was really coming. As elusive and provocative as ever, the onetime prophet of protest has launched his first road tour in almost two years. It is not a complete surprise: like most rock stars on the concert circuit, Dylan happens to have a new single, Hurricane, just out and an album on the way. But his tour is different. It began, of all places, in Plymouth, where the Pilgrims settled, and it quickly became an oddly timeless journey: a rambling, almost casual camper and bus tour of college towns and blue-collar community halls. Ticket sales for such places...