Word: prophetizer
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...occupies the chair of social anthropology at Paris' College de France. He also occupies a place of increasing importance in the world of ideas. At 58, he can scarcely be called a newcomer. Yet for many who are just discovering him, he is the newest and most challenging prophet on the scene. In France and elsewhere, he has deposed Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre as the most notable-and fashionable-intellectual figure...
...they "count upon the friendly help of the United States." Said the President earlier in the week: "To day in the Middle East-as in Viet Nam and America-we are faced with a task of rebuilding, of putting together a human equation, where men can live as the prophet Micah said, 'Every man under his vine and fig tree; and none shall make them afraid...
...elusive vision. The problem for U.S. policymakers is that the Arabs see no room for Israeli fig trees anywhere in the Middle East; they remain committed to destroying the little country. For their part, the Israelis have no intention of following the advice of Micah and another favorite Johnsonian prophet-Isaiah-and beating their swords into plowshares. "Return your swords to your scabbards," said Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan last week, "but keep them ever ready, for the time has not yet come when you can beat them into plowshares...
...Badge. In neighboring Alabama, trouble was triggered not by shooting but by shouting. Black Power Prophet Stokely Carmichael started it with a wild argument at a voter registration meeting in Prattville, a reputed Ku Klux Klan stronghold ten miles from Montgomery. Stokely's target was Prattville Assistant Police Chief Kenneth Hill, who shot and killed a Negro early this year during a jailbreak attempt after a mistaken arrest for murder. When Hill showed up at the meeting, Carmichael yelled: "Take that tin badge off and I'll take care of you myself!" After getting reinforcements, the cops arrested...
...have lived in Palestine for 1,300 years, and until recently made up the vast majority of the population. To Arabs, the Israelis are newcomers who in a generation or two wrested the land away from them. For the Moslems, too, Palestine has sacred connotations: tradition holds that the Prophet visited Heaven by ascending a ladder of light from the spot that is now marked by the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem...