Word: prophetizer
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...Protestants, only 31% (as against 74% of the Catholics) believed in immortality. Only 45% regard Jesus Christ as "divine"; 40% consider him "only as a very great prophet or teacher...
...Prophet ($16,000), a 7½ft. figure of Monel metal covered with nickel-silver by Dentist-turned-Sculptor Seymour Lipton, is both warning and challenge. "I was thinking of Isaiah," Lipton explains. "The work suggests a strident person, a gesture of stepping forward. But the work is also a challenge to the observer to become involved in a whole new language of form belonging to the present age." The U.S.'s new sculpture has indeed developed a provocative new vocabulary if not a language of form. But a vocabulary is not a work...
...deciding the question, nevertheless think that "on the whole, the Church stands for the best in human life," though it suffers from certain minor human shortcomings! And a substantial majority, though naturally denying the orthodox of the Incarnation, still feel that "Christ should be regarded ... as a very great prophet or teacher." "Whether or not he lived, many of his teachings are well worthwhile," an agnostic notes marginally. "The highest ideal of man," another adds; and a former Conservative Jew sees him as a "beautiful and profound symbol...
...that Joseph Alsop, even as a freshman at Harvard, used to hold sessions in which upperclassmen would come to hear him pontificate. He has been at it so long now that his message has grown stale from overuse and over-stylization. It is well-nigh impossible to give this prophet and his brother the respect which--despite their book--is certainly their...
...large, our teachers are paid what they are worth. [The late Philosopher John] Dewey is God, the National Education Association is his prophet, and all the teachers colleges are his disciples. This philosophy has been broadcast throughout our land for 40 years. It takes just about 30 or 40 years to change an educational system. We live in an era when it is very easy to get food and clothing. They come to us almost naturally. And so we believe that things of the mind can come that easily, too. This is where we fall down. This is the most...