Word: prophetizer
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...there is a third class?the writers who tell their troubles. Perhaps because the author seems to them a sort of impersonal, veiled prophet, they pour out to him or her the most intimate sort of confessions. They don't get on with their spouses, their children go wrong, the roof leaks, they are in trouble, sick, despairing, what to do ? Rather pitifully, they assume that the author can help them, tell them why and how, set life on its feet again. Strange...
...program of the "Pops" concert for Amherst College Night this evening at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall in Boston follows: 1. Coronation March, from "The Prophet" Meyerbeeer 2. Overture to "Le Roi l'a dit" Delibes 3. Fantasia "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagni 4. College Songs 5. Ballet Suite, "Nutcracker" Tschaikovsky 6. "Indian Summer", an American Idyll Herbert 7. Overture to "Tannhauser" Wagner 8. College Songs 9. Selection, "Apple Blossoms" Kreisler-Jacobi 10. Waltz, "One the Beautiful Blue Danube" J. Strauss 11. Sixth Hungarian Dance Brahms
...results are perhaps most amusing when prophets write history and historians prophesy. Mr. Wells' facile pen was able to trace the entire history of the world from the monkey to the World War as little more than a preface to the Utopia which was fermenting in his brain. German historians have found the prophet's robes pleasant. The latest, Dr. Kemmerich, too engrossed in the past to heed the late war, predicts that in twenty years Germany will be the mightiest nation in Europe. But since he also predicts that a new Romanoff czar will appear at the same time...
...program follows: Coronation March from "The Prophet" Meyerbeer Overture, "11 Guarany" Gomez Waltz, "1001 Nights" Strauss Fantasia, "Madame Butterfly" Puccini Tempest Scene, "Othello" Verdi Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner Tarantelle Jacchia Rhapsody, "Espana" Chabrier "L'Arlesienne" Suite, No. 2 Bizet a. Minuet b. Farandole Tango Albeniz Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor Brahms
...Waning Crescent. The only Mohammedan mosque on this hemisphere has closed its doors. Followers of the prophet have had a " church fight." The mosque, which is in Detroit and was subsidized by a wealthy Mohammedan there, will be sold for real estate...