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...still alive. He predicted hopefully that the Communists would be overthrown within two years. Last week he visited the U. S. again. People were surprised to find he was still alive. Asked by reporters when he expected the Communists to be overthrown, he replied: "I am no prophet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 14, 1938 | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

With skill--for prophet-like, you also swayed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/1/1938 | See Source »

...intervening 726 pages are only indirectly Reeves's story. In that instant there leaps into his mind the tormented figure of Jeremiah, the prophet of doom, who in the reign of King Josiah had leaned against a pillar in the Temple and stared at a leather amulet on his wrist as Reeves had stared at his wrist watch. The rest of the story is really Jeremiah's. It follows him back to his lonely childhood outside Jerusalem, through his exile, apostasy, agony, to his final peace. His wife, like Reeves's wife, had died in Egypt. Because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prophet of Doom | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...tempestuous. It may well be more popular than Mann's four-volume masterpiece. With most of its characters black & white sketches, Hearken unto the Voice rises to the heights of great literature only in the passages (which Author Werfel has lifted from the Old Testament) where the prophet thunders his denunciations of the evils of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prophet of Doom | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Although the swimming situation at Harvard looks more favorable today than it ever has, foolish indeed would be the prophet who would predict a clean state of victories for the Crimson squad without looking at the records of opponents to come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Future Opponents For Mermen Show Brilliant Records | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

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