Word: prophetizer
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...spindly-legged youth, thought to be a hopeless deaf-mute, had suddenly started prophesying that "God would arrive in Kirawara at one o'clock." Attracted by the commotion, a British-led patrol of Kenya's African police came crashing through the jungle, intent on arresting the prophet as a mouthpiece of the Mau Mau, the terrorist secret society that threatens to turn Kenya Crown Colony into a colonial golgotha. "God will destroy all government chiefs," intoned the prophet defiantly. "Airplanes will fall to earth, and police bullets turn to water." Thus encouraged, the prophet's trusting admirers...
...World War II. Nuclear fission convinced the public that "science can do anything." The German V-2 rocket proved that a man-made vehicle can climb briefly into space. The head of the V-2 project, Dr. Wernher von Braun, is still only 40 and is the major prophet and hero (or wild propagandist, some scientists suspect) of space travel. As a boy, Dr. von Braun wanted to go to the moon. He still does...
What does not change, said Tillich, is "the Protestant principle," a prophetic power to call men to an awareness of God's infinite nature and their own limitations. Tillich held that the Protestant principle has existed since the dawn of Christianity, and must exist because it is necessary to Christianity. It is the "protesting" voice of the prophet outside the temple calling the people back to God and away from the formalism and sophistries of the priest...
...clear genius in the advisory group is France's cranky Le Corbusier, long a major architectural prophet. In 1936, he helped Brazil's fiery Oscar Niemeyer design a government building (see cut) which obviously served as an important U.N. source. Niemeyer calls his French collaborator "the Leonardo da Vinci of modern times." Now, in his brand-new Marseille apartment house, which has a richness of color and surface that the U.N. notably lacks, Corbusier points the way to even more impressive slabs...
Family Background: He is the leader of the 41st generation of the Hashemite family, founded by the Prophet Mohammed. For 37 generations the family was a slumbering bush-league dynasty. Then Feisal I (Feisal II's grandfather) fought against the Turks with T. E. (Seven Pillars of Wisdom) Lawrence in World War I, dealt deftly with the British and emerged as founder and first King of modern Iraq. He died in 1933. His brother Abdullah with British subsidies made a state out of arid Jordan. An assassin killed him a year...