Word: prophetizer
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...lesser noise) is clearly ending in a whisper. Between Johnson and Eliot lay the great age of the literary thunderheads, roughly dated between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the onset of World War I. Then boomed and flashed the resounding literary quarterlies, the influential journalists, the great prophet-critics like Coleridge, Carlyle, Walter Bagehot and Arnold. Such cloud-capped, towering judges of culture and anarchy have dissolved in today's bland intellectual climate. But in their heyday, English men of letters could claim, in Gross's phrase, to have "written a collective biography of the national...
Performer Not Prophet. The real source of disappointment lay in a worshiping youthful expectation incapable of fulfillment. The prophet had brought no cataclysm, no revelation. That was hardly Dylan's fault. He has always been a performer who moved uneasily within his aura. He has never really courted audiences. That quality has helped him outgrow the limitations of his early successes. But it has also alienated some of his fans. There were early Dylan fanatics, for instance, who considered him guilty of betrayal when he first gave up the pure strains of folk music and adopted the electrified...
...book, which will be published in English under the title Chariots of the Gods?, Hotelman Erich von Daniken builds his thesis with the zeal-and sometimes the evidence-of a flying-saucer enthusiast. Thus, chapters 1 and 3 of Ezekiel (the prophet's famous fiery-wheel vision) are cited as Biblical descriptions of flying saucers, and Genesis 6, in which the "sons of God" mate with the "daughters of Men," is presumed to describe the spacemen's couplings with earthlings. Even the Ark of the Covenant becomes an intercom system through which the prophets received the word from...
...biographical bits from the detritus of Shaw's mountainous writings to make a paste-and-scissors "autobiography." British Historian R. J. Minney has formed a pattern of sorts from some industriously gathered anecdotal bits. Though the Shavian shavings do not quite add up to the beard of the prophet, Weintraub's book at least proves that Shaw was perhaps the greatest autobiographer who never wrote...
...fire. That was all the information that Arab propagandists needed. Cairo Radio called the fire a "premeditated crime." Al-Fatah, the Palestinian Arab commando organization, demanded shrilly in its broadcasts: "Moslems, what are you waiting for? The Zionists are burning down your sacred shrines. How can you face the Prophet Mohammed?" Jordan's King Hussein, whose grandfather King Abdullah was assassinated by a Palestinian Arab gunman in front of the Aqsa mosque in 1951, called for an Arab summit meeting...