Word: prophetizer
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...missing. Gone, for example, were files of correspondence with Presidents John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Herbert Hoover, Chief Justice Earl Warren, House Speaker Sam Ray burn and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Some boxes were filled with nothing but newspaper clippings. Newman proved to be an accurate prophet when he once wrote about his profession: "I assure you that there isn't any dodge that some sharp mind in the Internal Revenue Service hasn't heard about. The day of reckoning is drawing closer. When it comes, all of us, the calculating and the naive...
...Educated at Eton and Oxford, Sir Julian was an atheist and self-styled "humanist" and an astonishingly prolific writer; his 48 major books range from candid autobiography (Memories) to probing studies of evolution. As UNESCO's first director-general (1946-48), he gained widespread attention as a doomsday prophet, warning against such dangers as the population explosion and man's neglect of his environment...
...converting the world. There was South Korea's Rev. Sun Myung Moon, 55, a self-ordained Christian missionary (and self-made millionaire) whose message of repentance was blatted across the U.S. last year by thousands of zealous young converts to his Unification Church (TIME, Sept. 30). Yet another prophet is Daisaku Ikeda, 46, president and spiritual leader of Japan's Soka Gakkai (Value-Creation Society), a laymen's Buddhist organization. Ikeda is fast earning a reputation as a super missionary for peace...
...From which, according to Moslem legend, the prophet Mohammed as cended into heaven astride his favorite white steed, Buraq...
...inside every American joiner, he concludes, "already wander the streets looking for stranger cults, wilder religions. The more bloodless buy books called You're Really a Terrific Person, desperately making the most of what's left when you lose defining associations." In the end, outside-insiders play prophet rather than reporter and are subject to a certain amount of repetition. Sheed's warnings may be as old as Santayana's. They have seldom been stated with more precision or more grace...