Word: prophetizer
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...perching cheerfully on top of the coats & hats. Others helped themselves to the open bottles of Scotch, bourbon and rye on the dresser, or dug into the communal paper buckets of chop suey, chicken and egg rolls on the table. Looming above the pandemonium, with the air of a prophet who has just been slugged by a vigorous vision, was Candidate Estes Kefauver. He moved slowly through the throng, sipping a Scotch highball, dropping an affectionate long arm around shoulder after shoulder, and murmuring fervently: "I certainly did appreciate your help...
...final portion of a novel "Of Aton the Forceful Fields and the Messiah," the booklet is the work of Guido Mosig, who claims that he is the contemporary prophet of the line of "Zarustha-Brahman-aspati-Moses-Jesus...
...rebel who speaks with the roaring fervor of a Biblical prophet, Griffiths nevertheless is a master compromiser. When persuasion will not work, his sense of humor often does the trick. Once, while touring the U.S., he was told by an American: "Frankly, I don't like the English." Replied Jim: "That's all right. I have a lot of trouble with them myself." In Labor's reign, he handled the tough Ministry of National Insurance, later was Secretary of State for the Colonies. Respected by both Attlee and Bevan, Griffiths last week was giving no indication that...
Fazzini at his more serious was harder to take. The Prophet, which Fazzini himself considers one of his best statues, was a grim, slope-shouldered figure in coarse-grained pearwood, as ungainly as his other work was agile. Fazzini explains it as "architecture in the form of a man-the attempt of man to become more pure, and to rise from the material to the spiritual...
...first exhibition of Pechstein's works since pre-Hitler days: a representative group of more than 80 works (400 others had been destroyed or lost during the war) that seemed pretty tame after all the years. Even so, critics were pleased with the show, labeled Pechstein "a prophet of happiness...