Word: prophetizer
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Thus began the period in Lindbergh's life in which he tried to be a political prophet-with results that shocked and saddened most of his countrymen...
...characters move toward one or another stage of self-realization, Renoir's films take on an even larger, universal significance. His spirit, his ability to create characters through use of clear, almost divine, light give his films an aura of undeniable truth, as if he were a Biblical prophet, telling us the word...
...other Indians must limit themselves to one wife at a time. Worst of all in Hindu eyes, Moslems are beef eaters, and they outrage their Hindu neighbors by slaughtering cows, which Hindus consider sacred. President Husain, whose own wife still wears a veil and lives in seclusion as the Prophet recommended, hopes to relax the vexing tensions between the two religious groups. "We must talk less, quarrel less, work hard and ever harder, and hold together," he said after his election. It was a sensible formula not only for India's Hindu-Moslem troubles but for the country...
...Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Stearn...
...policy in Viet Nam. But elsewhere the "little brother" complex is strengthened by the limitations of Canadian culture. Canada has produced no artists or writers of truly international rank. The only Canadian authors who have achieved renown in the U.S. are the late humorist Stephen Leacock and, currently, Prophet Marshall McLuhan. One difficulty is that Canadian artists, once they begin to succeed, tend to leave their country, a phenomenon described by 19th century Poet Charles G. D. Roberts after he himself moved abroad...