Word: prophetizer
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...millions of Moslems from the teeming cities of India to the jungle swamps of Tanganyika, the Aga Khan was a holy figure, held in unquestioning esteem. Born in Karachi of Persian parents on Nov. 2, 1877, of a line that claims direct descent from the Prophet's daughter Fatima, young Mahomed Shah became Imam of the Ismailis at the age of seven, when his father died...
...minority sect of Islam, whose origins lie deep in the feuds that rent the faithful after the death of the Prophet Mohammed, the Ismailis believe essentially that life is good and should be lived to the full. If at times their new Imam was seen in the public press to be sipping a glass of wine in contravention of the Prophet's orders, it could always be supposed that his divine powers turned the wine into water before it reached his lips, and "after all," as one of the faithful was supposed to have said, "why shouldn...
...Chances seemed good that he would blow it again. This week in the play-off it was Middlecoff who came apart. He splashed shots all over the course. Remarkably calm in the oppressive heat, Mayer played steady, close-to-par golf. While Middlecoff made Bobby Jones a prophet and lost the National Open championship, Dick Mayer...
Smell of Genius & Sewers. "What a strange lot they were, when I think on it!'' recalls Miller. "Judson Crews of Waco, Texas, one of the first to muscle in, reminded one-because of his shaggy beard and manner of speech-of a latter-day prophet. He lived almost exclusively on peanut butter and wild mustard greens . . ." Some were writers of great books, incomprehensibly without publishers. Another merely "smelled of genius." Another was writing "a chthonian [i.e., from the nether world] drama mirroring the nightmare," etc. Even the man who might put in sewers would do so with...
...thin theology, is preaching a doctrine known along Madison Avenue as togetherness. "The ideal community, in a sense, would be the loose, fluid aggregation of individuals . . . It would be a God-filled community, even if none of its members believed in (a) God. It would be a paradise . . ." Prophet Miller seems to claim precedents in the Essenes, the Albigenses and the heretical underground of Hieronymus Bosch...