Word: prophets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most anxious for a chapter on "The Inevitability of Wars in the Capitalist System." All the other powers protested hotly. Said the U.S. delegate (jovial, white-haired Harry R. Wyman of the Phoenix Junior College in Arizona): "It isn't our purpose here to turn prophet . . ." Replied Major Bagrov: "I didn't mean that at all ... and General Stalin has announced that with a definite will on both sides, both the Socialist and the Capitalist systems can and must exist together . . . I will now attempt to change the wording." His final title, to which the others assented...
...Lebanon, long ago a defeated army was driven into a cave in the valley of Antelias and walled up to die of starvation. The man who breaks into the cave, says the legend, will find whitened skeletons like the valley full of dry bones that the Lord showed the Prophet Ezekiel...
...life had been one long schooling in the devious ways of Arab rivals-and of great powers. Abdullah was born in Mecca 66 years ago, into one of the proudest families of Islam, the Hashimites, in the 39th generation in direct line from the Prophet Mohamed. He was the son of Hussein, Sherif of Mecca. From the age of eleven he grew up at the court of the Turkish tyrant Abdul Hamid in Constantinople, where he was, like other children of notables, a hostage for the good behavior of his father. There the boy Abdullah learned languages .(besides Arabic...
After the revolution, Prophet Menzhinsky became the Leninists' knout. Lenin called him "the decadent neurotic." This policeman was interested in Persian art and higher mathematics. He wrote erotic poetry and read pornographic novels in his office between executions. He was plump, languid, soft-voiced, given to blue moods. He said: "Our task is to bring culture to the masses at a terrific speed." His OGPU, successor to the CHEKA,' brought death by execution and starvation to millions of Ukrainian and other peasants...
...Bowman became president of Johns Hopkins University. "Bow" streamlined the administration, erased the deficit, added top scholars to its faculty. Impressed by his ability as an administrator, Robert Hutchins wrote him: "I once used to think of you as a major prophet. Now, I am inclined to think you are the daring young man on the flying trapeze." Last week, the trapeze was slowing its swing. At 69, Isaiah Bowman decided that it was time for him to retire...