Word: prophetizer
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...guidance" was his touchstone-a phrase so often on his lips that it seemed to many that he had invented the idea. God guided Frank Buchman to seek out the company of the rich and famous-an improbable prophet, ovoid and owlish, with a piping voice and a slangy sweetness-and-light that in the past four decades won him an earnest following. At first these followers were known as Oxford Groupers or Buchmanites, but in 1938. as the nations of the world rearmed for war. Dr. Buchman was inspired to christen his movement Moral Re-Armament. Stumping the world...
...founded the Bauhaus, and who later transformed Harvard's Graduate School of Design into one of the finest architectural schools in the U.S., had been asked to build comparatively little. But for once in his life, Walter Gropius turned out to be a poor prophet...
...Crown Prince does not as sure Badr of succession. A new Imam is picked by the ulema (learned men) who live in the fortress city of Sana in the north of Yemen. They can choose any male of the royal family or any Yemenite directly descended from the Prophet, of whom there may be as many as 50,000 in Yemen. The ulema do not much like Badr, have refused requests by the Imam to ratify Badr's title. Left-leaning Prince Badr has cultivated the U.A.R.'s Gamal Abdel Nasser, and at his urging has traveled...
Essays and Introductions, by William Butler Yeats. These are the thoughts of the early Yeats, the prophet of the Celtic Twilight. Here is the cult of beauty, the mystique of art as religion, and the strange notions that somehow fed the glories of his poetry...
Essays and Introductions, by William Butler Yeats. These are the thoughts of the early Yeats, the prophet of the Celtic Twilight. Here is the cult of beauty, the mystique of art as religion, and the strange notions that somehow fed the glories of his poetry...