Word: prophetizer
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David Dodds, the Angel Gabriel, sings his role with the purity of a Russell Oberlin. As Simeon, the prophet, Robert Patterson is forcefully apocalyptic; and as Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, Jenneke Barton is magnificently, overwhelmingly maternal...
...Prophet, plainly no mere bird! Is there no foreign country Where to argue freely about art portends no peril sore? Shall I ever reach that region, if such be, and not get shot? . . . Croaked the Raven: Nevermore...
...Wrathful Prophet. As he grew deafer, he became more paranoiacally suspicious of everyone. He accused musicians of deliberately misreading his music, publishers of trying to cheat him, friends of betraying him. Cooped up alone in his house, he feuded endlessly with servants over trivia, described in minute detail how "brutish" they were. But he reserved his sternest strictures for his nephew Karl...
When Karl's father died. Beethoven took the boy away from his mother, whose casual amours he denounced like a wrathful prophet-a recriminating compensation, some biographers say, for the syphilis Beethoven picked up in his own youth. He prescribed music for Karl, then philosophy. But Karl was no genius and joined the army instead. Beethoven was full of advice. In letter after letter, he upbraided the boy: "What distresses me most of all is the thought of the consequences which you will suffer as a result of your behaviour. No one will believe or trust...
Earliest was the 16th century's Hiawatha, who was not a Chippewa (as Longfellow's poem has it) but a member of one of the five Iroquoian tribes (either a Mohawk or an Onondagan). A cannibal like all Iroquois at that time, he became a mystic and prophet who united the five tribes into a single confederation. Then there was the Wampanoags' King Philip, who fought the Puritan colonists in the 1600s while his warriors defected or died around him, and who himself was killed defending his lands. The obscure Pueblo medicine...