Word: prophetizer
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WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY Roger Tory Peterson, D.Sc., ornithologist and author. In a threatened world suddenly aware of its own mortality, you have long been a prophet of the interrelate dness of all living things...
...just around the corner. We divide society into a calcimined majority and a vigorous, youthful vanguard. And no one is particularly delighted by art which says that his most serious hopes and fears are in some way comical. So we recreate Chekhov in our image, make him either a prophet of apocalyptic change, a critic of a dead society, an eloquent voice of hopelessness and stoicism, or all of these...
...that the first author or group of authors lived during the violent period of the Assyrians, the second during the peaceful reign of the Persians, 200 to 250 years later. All 19 tests turned up significant differences between the two parts. Radday's conclusion: the probability that one prophet wrote the book...
...abilities that he succeeds?touchingly, amusingly, agonizingly. Since Local Anaesthetic came out in Germany, Grass is often confronted by bitter high school and college students. "You only criticize," they complain, "you only show us how things are. Why don't you show us the way?" "I'm not a prophet," he growls in response, "I'm a writer." In the long run, that will probably have to be enough...
...Prophets and Poets. Also from Africa came a tribal tradition of the poet as wiseman and prophet, interpreter of the past and seer of the future. According to Poet Nikki Giovanni: "There is no difference between the warrior, the poet, and the people. Like Stokely is a poet and so is Rap Brown...