Word: prophetizer
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...were confined to the Atlantic, and warned that, under no circumstances should this country allow itself to become embroiled in a "two-ocean" war, which it could not possibly win. Despite his Olympian stance, pontifical self-assurance, and popular prestige, history is likely to judge Walter Lippmann, as a prophet, to have been more gravely mistaken more often on more major issues than any other leading commentator...
...many Sudanese Moslems, Mohammed Ahmed was more than a national hero. He was El Mahdi-the Messiah-legendary descendant of the Prophet and leader of the Whirling Dervishes, who massacred the British at Khartoum in 1885, breaking 65 years of foreign occupation...
...tramp Goldstein may be the elusive prophet Elijah, or perhaps Godot, or God, or the junk sculptor's father. He disappears, and the sculptor searches the city, but fails to find Goldstein, or even to get a fix on his own identity. Instead, the sculptor falls in with Novelist Nelson Algren, who is interviewed at home among portraits of relatives, nudes and famous boxers. To raise everyone's low spirits, a pair of Manhattan abortionists (Severn Darden and Anthony Holland) are flown in to minister to the sculptor's girl friend. In a campy comedy sequence played...
Under the direction of Nike Awoga and Femi Okuronmu, the cast seemed to enjoy themselves as completely as the audience did and they played their comic parts to the hilt, storming and shouting around the stage with enormous enthusiasm and exuberance. Amafume Onoge as the prophet Jeroboam delighted the house with abrupt switches from pompous ranting at his flock on stage, to sly soft-voiced asides to the audience explaining his true despicable motives. In the role of Chume, Akin Adewole '66 was as athletic and skilled at fighting with his wife as he was playing line...
Soyinka, a contemporary Nigerian playwright, novelist and poet takes as his plot the attempts of a fraudulent religious prophet to win people to his Christian teachings by promising them worldly benefits: to one, a prime-ministership, to another, the position of head clerk. Each character is pious on the surface but greedy, lusty and ambitious on the inside, and the most humorous moments come when these inner feelings are most bluntly and frankly expressed as when the phony prophet's disciple, Chume, whose principal desire in life is to beat his wife, pleads with his mentor, "Just once! Just once...