Word: prophets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just now the emphasis is on the pigskin and the Jayvees won their first game for 1947 on Saturday, Elijah the prophet had plenty to say about the future but Elijah Boston, in the tradition of a football coach does not. "We may win some, but last year was a freak," he says...
Although Hal's qualities as a prophet remain to be tested, the Crimson's football fans can be assured that he has done all that is possible to make his prophecies realize themselves. In doing so, he is drawing on the experiences gained in more than 15 years in college football and coaching...
...temporal, which Picasso lacks, and shock tactics are not a final way to alter human vision. The crux and center of Picasso's art is, in my view, hysteria, and in this he so echoes the prevailing evil of his age that he seems to be its prophet...
...bravado was obviously rare. For Canby is not a daring or a penetrating critic. On the other hand, by his industry, fluency, and sincere impulse to "pass on sound values to the reading public," he made a place for himself in his period. He is as competent as any prophet to observe, at the end, "we .have lived through increasing intensity and its decline into fatigue, but the tranquillity, or at least the objectivity, is to come later, I fear much later...
...state that the Prophet Joseph Smith found no hidden gold. He did. He found the gold plates upon which the Book of Mormon was inscribed. . . . The symbols found on them were no more mystic than written French to a fourth-grade American schoolboy. Magic Spectacles which you mention [are] undoubtedly the Urim and Thummim, an affair which was worn on the person, much as a telephone operator's mouthpiece, and which is not to be confused with the seer-stone...