Word: prophets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feminists who look to Lessing as a prophet of the movement may be disappointed with Memoirs. Emily's struggle is to become a woman, yes, but the message of the book has nothing to do with a woman's struggle to become independent. In fact, midway through the book the narrator discusses her own dissatisfaction with Emily's submission to Gerald her lover...
Solzhenitsyn speaks with the voice of an Old Testament prophet. While the prophets were often correct (sometimes because they helped make their prophecies come true), Solzhenitsyn's apocalyptic vision cannot be a guide to practical policy. Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union have good reason to pursue détente: the hope of reducing, if only a little and very gradually, the danger of a war that could end civilization. True, détente is risky. But the U.S. is not so weak that it need be afraid of dealing with a powerful and wily adversary...
...Square facing the Riyadh Mosque. At the appointed hour, the young prince was led, blindfolded, to the square. As he knelt with his hands tied behind his back, one of the sharia judges read him the court's verdict. Immediately thereafter, in keeping with the words of the Prophet Mohammed, "a soul for a soul," the prince was executed in the prescribed manner...
Second Witness. It was difficult to be a prophet as well as pastor, husband and father of five. Gill announced that God had therefore provided a second "witness," as described in Revelation 11, in the person of Mrs. Mescal Mclntosh, then 45, one of his parishioners. Gill began putting questions to God via Mclntosh and invited church members to do the same. Instead of "feeling" the words as Gill did, Mclntosh actually heard the voice of God, who, she said, "would just instantly dictate an answer as though he were on the telephone." About 40 of the faithful had left...
...last year Gill realized that a miracle was needed to make the masses recognize that he was a true prophet. For months he led the church to expect that this proof would be nothing less than the resurrection of someone from the dead. Last July 3 he announced in the church newspaper that the next issue would describe an event that would "publicly vindicate" him as a prophet. On the very day the paper was to appear, Gill, 49, suddenly died of pancreatitis after two days in the hospital...