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...those 4 1/2 million men currently enjoying the economic recession, the President's speech no doubt reminds them of the prophet's voice speaking from the wilderness. It is, unfortunately, a wilderness of darkness, ignorance, and confusion, in which President Eisenhower seems to be helplessly lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Economy: I | 2/18/1958 | See Source »

...smoke-filled cellar cafés and cold-water flats of San Francisco's waterfront and Manhattan's Greenwich Village, the word these days is "beat." Patriarch and prophet of what he calls "the beat generation" is a 35-year-old writer named Jack Kerouac, whose recent novel On the Road (TIME, Sept. 16) chronicled the cross-country adventures in cars, bars and beds of a bunch of fancy-talking young bums. Last week, in newspaper interviews with TV's Mike Wallace, Novelist Kerouac and equally beat Poet Philip Lamantia explained that beatness is really a religious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Beat Mystics | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...England and its Metropolis shall know That there hath been a prophet Among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: England's Darlings | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...taught Colin Wilson, then 25, got on British intellectuals' lips; today, it gets on their nerves. The critical cheers that greeted The Outsider turned to catcalls upon sight of its sequel. Religion and the Rebel. Flicked the Daily Express's Nancy Spain: "If civilization needs a new prophet, it will take more than the Boy Colin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Tohu-Bohu Kid | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

Died. Mahonri Mackintosh Young, 80, versatile sculptor, painter, etcher, one of Mormon Prophet Brigham Young's 300-odd grandchildren; of a bleeding ulcer complicated by pneumonia; in Norwalk, Conn. Young taught (on and off since 1917) at Manhattan's Art Students League, kept within the realistic tradition, created two of his best-known works for his native Salt Lake City: Sea Gull Monument and Pioneer Monument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 11, 1957 | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

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