Word: prophetizer
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...Angeles. Seattle had him for a while, and other towns in the Northwest. Four years ago he turned up in Oroville, Calif., an old mining town, a little whiter, a little scrawnier and no longer plain John Cudney. He was now Brother Isaiah, 88th & last incarnation of the prophet Isaiah. On a rocky hillside he built a great ramshackle temple for his collection of handkerchiefs, canes and crutches, a colony of tents for 40-odd followers whom he called "Immortals." "I shall live forever," he told them, "and so shall you if you obey my teachings...
...Coronation March from "The Prophet"Meyerbeer *Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolai *Minuet, for String Orchestra Bolzoni *"Carmen," Fantasia Bizet *"The Damnation of Faust," Excerpts Berlioz Minuet of the Will-o'-the-Wisps. Dance of the Sylphs Hungarian March (Rakoczy) *Meditation from "Thais" Massenet *Overture to "Mignon" Thomas
...President of the U. S. has ever had greater political power of tongue than Franklin D. Roosevelt. When he has spoken the country has arisen and followed him as a prophet. His unique power to explain simply and convincingly, to gain acceptance for ideas, has been his most powerful political tool. Last week in Washington his political advisers were urging that it was time for him again to use that tool, to bring 122,000,000 people once more enthusiastically to their feet, to cheer them, convince them again of the merit of his aims, and win back the support...
Though preachers (usually) must be licensed, politicians elected and princes born, anyone is free to become a prophet. From Major Prophet Marx to Minor Prophet H. G. Wells there has been a swarm of soothsayers laying down the law, but rarely have their tables of stone weathered the drizzle of a single generation. Of the modestly minor interpreters of the modern U. S., Lewis Mumford has one of the most respectful followings. No Jeremiah, no hard-shell Marxian, with no patent axe to grind, he goes at the complex mass of modern civilization with all five senses. Technics and Civilization...
Next day the public schools opened as usual, laid plans to run extra shifts for the parochial pupils. Threatened with tar & feathers, Prophet Voliva declared himself a two-gun man ready to kill at the drop of a hat. Then he announced that he would reopen all but the lower grades of his parochial school, require every pupil to take an oath of allegiance to him. Satan and his imps would try to destroy the world sometime in September, he said, and he needed an organization "like Hitler's" to combat them...