Word: prophetizer
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...watch the horror of realization steal into her eyes as she recognizes that Oedipus is her own son is to witness a consumate piece of acting. A similar attention to the details of a performance can be found in Philip McCopy's portrayal of Tiresias, the blind prophet. In his single but long scene, the man personifies all the calm certaintly of truth...
...Take Up the Challenge!" PROPHET INSULTED IN GOVERNOR MUNSHl's PUBLICATION, shrieked the headline in Editor Almi's anti-Hindu newspaper Siyaset* "Has the Moslem world become so docile that it cannot take up the challenge?" Almi asked. Kanpur's Moslems, all too eager to blame Hindus for their frustrations and poverty, took up the challenge. Thousands who had not read the book trotted through the streets carrying signs that demanded: "Ban the Religious Leaders Book" and "Down with Governor Munshi." In Aligarh students of the Moslem University snaked through the college grounds with a chant: "Long...
Hastily, Munshi ordered the book withdrawn from sale and tendered an official apology: "I have the greatest regard for the Prophet." But the wave of wrath rolled on through India's 36 million Moslems. From the Ganges to the Indus, Moslem villagers stabbed Hindus, looted Hindu shops, stoned Hindu temples. Hindu townspeople fought back. In industrial Jubbulpore seven Hindus, Moslems and police died and 50 were wounded in one sanguinary knifing melee. In Khamgaon rioting Hindus broke into Moslem shops and fought with police; when the police opened fire five died. Some Hindu extremists, organizing a boycott of Moslem...
...when rotund Camille Pissarro walked into Paris' Cafe de la Nouvelle Athenes with his great prophet's beard streaming and his portfolio tucked under his arms, fellow artists would greet him with a shout, "Hail to Moses!" In fact, good-natured, soft-spoken Painter Pissarro's place in art was far more that of teacher, peacemaker and counselor than lawgiver. He was ten years older than most of the impressionist greats, and this induced in him a fatherly urge to take time off from his own painting to patch up quarrels, round up shows, hold together...
...first acts as an independent nation, the new Moslem-dominated state of Tunisia this week abolished plural marriage (up to four wives at any one time) sanctioned for Moslems by the Koran and by the example of Prophet Mohammed. "These measures have been taken to better protect the home, the base of society," announced Premier Habib Bourguiba, an Arab who has but one wife, a Frenchwoman. He added that girls would no longer be permitted to become child-brides at 14 or less, that youths and girls over 20 need no longer get parental consent to marry, that male Tunisians...