Word: prophetizer
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...Protestantism-once famous for its diversity-is homogenizing into what is almost a new faith, and if it continues in its present direction, it will be stone-cold dead in a couple of dozen years. This thesis comes from no hot-eyed prophet of doom but from a coolly analytical professor of Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School named Gibson Winter; and he supports it in a well-documented book titled The Suburban Captivity of the Churches (Doubleday...
...born S-Man learns to organize. This will enable him "to blame others for his own mistakes." The S-Man always has inside stories. He always knows "who is sleeping with whom. Inside every large onion, innumerable smaller and inner onions are waiting to be revealed. You are the prophet of the inner onion." The best road to the top "is often a zigzag-from one competitor to another and back again. Never be ashamed of rejoining your old firm if the salary is right: what a pleasure it is to be among old friends again...
...visitors equipped with four-bladed, backpack helicopters. They wore transparent space helmets ("And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creatures was as the color of the terrible crystal"), and their "four faces"-of a man, a lion, an ox and an eagle-were the prophet's description of their respiratory and walkie-talkie apparatus. The whirling of their jet-tipped helicopter blades made Ezekiel's fiery "wheels"-"and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted . . . And when they went. I heard the noise of their wings...
...Concubines. The palace gates opened. Shrieks rose to the sky as the coffin of King Mohammed V emerged, draped in a venerable black, green and gold cloth that, by tradition, had hung at the tomb of the Prophet in Mecca. Rhyth mically the crowd cried "Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!" (God is most great). Thus last week King Mohammed V. the found er of independent Morocco, was laid to rest in the royal mausoleum. Mohammed, though recently prone to hypochondria, was in good health and enjoyed life with his two wives and an estimated 28 concubines. Yet last week, swiftly...
Confidence Restored. Those boundaries have been further blurred since 1946 by a growth of confidence in the vitality of the U.S.'s "mixed" economy-capitalism modified by Government involvement. Here, again, Wesley Mitchell was something of a prophet. He took an "optimistic view of the future," he wrote in 1923. "For since the money economy is a complex of human institutions, it is subject to amendment. What we have to do is find out just how the rules of our own making thwart our wishes, and to change them...