Word: prophetizer
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...reason why Hamilton has sometimes seemed so out of place in his own century, Rossiter believes, is that he was uniquely prescient in his notion of the nation's future needs. Hamilton was "the prophet of industrial America." He foresaw the reach of the Constitution's interstate commerce clause; and "aware that America might live forever in a world at war," Hamilton created "a theory of the war power that has never been matched for grandeur and realism...
...septuagenarian publisher described his experiences with such authors as Thomas Mann and Willa Cather. He told of a college professor who wrote about a Montana river that was "like a navel cord" and "waterways that really brought forth men and women." He talked about Kahill Gibran, who wrote The Prophet, Knopf's best-selling book, which only began to drop in sales when Knopf started advertising...
Graham does not, however, see himself as a prophet like Isaiah and Jeremiah. "When I first heard myself called an evangelist, I resented it--I thought of Elmer Gantry. But I've come to like it. It comes from a Greek word meaning 'proclaimer'; an evangelist is a proclaimer of the good news that God loves us and wants to help...
Though he does not think himself a prophet, Graham can sound like Jonah addressing the men of Ninevah: "We're approaching a crisis that will make Cuba look pale, and you only have to read the papers to see it. The explosive points around the world are increasing rapidly; it seems as if the whole world is catching fire...
...gadgeteers. Like Freud, contemporary social critics enjoy tinkering around with their own perceptions, ordering them with analytical categories taken from the academe as well as with a journalist's feel for day-to-day events. However, in using this approach, modern critics have not ignored the austere tradition of prophet and moralist, one "crying in the wilderness." Of course, our better critics, the ones we can take seriously, are more sophisticated than a Jonah or Isaiah. Yet, as the old prophets did, men like Riesman worry a lot about what meaning human events might carry; they ask general questions about...