Word: prophetizer
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...Frank Kent (87 papers, circ. 5,000,000) as having undergone "violent reversal of attitude at periods approximating their middle years and success." Of Sullivan, Fisher says: "The fact that none of the tragedies [he has predicted] ever came to pass . . . has in no way affected [his] status as prophet, analyst," keeper of the Old Guard faith. Of Kent: "A prosperous citizen [vice president of Baltimore's Sunpapers] . . . when [he] assails the New Deal, the protest comes from the heart...
Only when he departed for new duty in the Middle East did he reveal his secret. He had been getting his dope from his batman, a coal black Xosa named Filemon. Filemon had been a tribal weather prophet of renown. He had joined the army only after an embarrassment involving a long-range weather forecast, a perversely unexpected dry spell, and his tribe's 1940 corn crop...
...Bromfield as the sensational prophet last summer was hewing at the right tree, while Jones, the optimist, had lost sight of the forest. To eat well, the U.S. was drawing heavily on its food reserves carried over from years of abundance and underconsumption. But the stockpile of grains, the basic food, is getting dangerously small. And at week's end Louis Bromfield, prophet of famine, stubbornly set his alarm clock ahead, this time for April...
...Theory of Business Enterprise, The Theory of the Leisure Class, will recall to the initiated that Thorstein Veblen was the mental sire of many a U.S. intellectual who grew up to be a technocrat. The initiated will remember, too, that Veblen has been praised and damned as the prophet of the New Deal. His influence on Rexford Guy Tugwell, George Soule, Stuart Chase and other New Deal economists has been profound. Anti-New Dealer Edgar M. Queeny (The Spirit of Enterprise), president of the Monsanto Chemical Co., has even gone so far as to make Veblen the source of practically...
...recent six-month tour of the South. No Day scored over 29 competitors, including North Carolina Resident Betty Smith's best-selling A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Previous cup-winners include Jonathan Daniels' A Southerner Discovers the South and Archibald Henderson's Bernard Shaw: Playboy and Prophet...