Word: prophetizer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...PROPHET, by Sholem Asch (343 pp.; Putnam; $4) is the work of an expert at making a good thing out of the Good Book. As the high priest of the Neo-Apocrypha or Bible-improvement school of writing, Sholem Asch, 75, has racked up sales of more than 1,000,000 by gilding such subjects as the lives of Christ (The Nazarene), St. Paul (The Apostle), Mary and Moses. This time Asch has raided the Bible for the story of the second Isaiah, who roused the Jews out of their Babylonian captivity.* The book's religious message is swaddled...
...Austin's Commodore Perry Hotel, Adlai Stevenson spent 35 minutes closeted with senior Texas Democrat and House Speaker Sam Rayburn. That night, at the university, Stevenson's subject was "America, the Economic Colossus." Stevenson had some doubts about the colossus. Said he: "I am not a prophet of gloom. I am not a prophet of any kind whatever. Nonetheless, I groaned the other day when a leading politician said with glee, 'Everything is booming but the guns.' I wish people would take less interest in booms and more in stability-in making good conditions last...
...started slowly; not until May 21 did the Yanks pick up the lead. July 1 saw them 6½ games in front. Then they stumbled. By the end of August, Cleveland and Chicago were fighting for first. But in September the Yanks made Casey look like a prophet. He said that the team that won eight straight in the stretch would wind up in the World Series against the Dodgers. In the stretch, the Yankees won exactly eight games...
...Judges are but men and man's most piercing discernment of the future," the eminent judge said, "cannot see very far beyond his day, even when guided by the prophet's insight and the compassionate humility of a Lincoln...
...been pecking away at a novel. Aurora Dawn was written in an 18th century style as quaint as a minuet, but it dealt with a 20th century subject, "the contrast between the rat-race values of the radio-advertising world and the stable values of an Old Testament hillbilly prophet who gets mixed up with it." Wouk thinks of it as "a compendium of first-novel errors," but the Book-of-the-Month Club grabbed it. From that day to this, Wouk has pursued "the hard, borderline trade" of writing with monastic dedication...