Word: prophets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people of the Mormon Church, believe that President George Albert Smith, the Prophet, Seer, and Revelator for the church today, can, and does receive revelation from the Almighty and His servants. . . . The last revelation was not the one ending the practice of polygamy ; it is merely the last revelation contained or recorded in the "Doctrine and Covenants," one of our Church Standards. There have been many revelations, visions, etc. since . . . and I am quite sure that there will continue...
...Communist prospects at the next election? A. I'm a very careful prophet, but everyone else says we will make progress with the voters because of our good work in the past two years...
...Joseph Smith and his chosen people were an affront to the whole frontier. Rumors blazed across the country. The prophet and a few intimates had secretly begun practicing polygamy, often marrying the wives of other Mormons who were handily absent on missions. In 1844, Smith ran for President of the U.S. He organized a Nauvoo Legion of 4,006 well-armed troops, donned a glittering uniform, signed himself "Lieut. General Smith," and talked of setting up a new nation...
That same year, Illinois Governor Thomas Ford threatened to raze Nauvoo. The 38-year-old prophet surrendered himself as a hostage for his people-and sealed his own fate. A mob with their faces disguised with paint invaded Carthage jail, shot him as he tried to escape from a window. As he fell to the ground, a lyncher with a bowie knife prepared to cut off his head, despite the remonstrances of a horrified bystander (see cut). But as he died, the prophet had one more triumph; the sun blazed out, illuminating the jail yard, and the man with...
...Free. As prophet of this bleak philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre, 42, enjoys more prestige in despairing Europe than any other writer of the postwar generation. Fashionable groups in conquered France took up existentialism; now defeated Germany is reportedly infested with it. Existentialists trace themselves back to Danish Philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, but they also owe a debt to Nazi Philosopher Martin Heidegger. Pope Pius XII has branded their ideas a "philosophy of disaster...