Word: prophets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Already, he shows the imprint of his mentor, that mixture of the morally-incensed minor prophet of Zion with the more modern, less pious, Superman of DC Comic aura and Nietzchean ethics...
...reading about Alexander Solzhenitsyn's present confrontation, I am reminded of Pasternak's words: "In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it." A prophet has always been considered a fool by his own. Nevertheless a prophet has always been and will always be a spokesman for God or for his people. Would that we all had such fools in our midst...
...remarkable open letter, obviously written more in sorrow than in anger, may well be Solzhenitsyn's farewell message to the Politburo. It reveals Russia's greatest writer as an uncomfortable and uncompromising prophet, a utopian conservative who fears for the future of his beloved country as much as he hates what the Soviet system has done to its past. English-language publication rights have been given to Index, a London-based magazine devoted to one of Solzhenitsyn's favorite causes, the abolition of censorship. Excerpts...
...That shows you how good a prophet I am--that I didn't know Watergate would break open this year," Alan L. Otten said wryly...
Gaddafi, who fancies himself the prophet of Arab unity in the tradition of the late Gamal Abdel Nasser, undoubtedly saw more than mere economic advantage to joining with Tunisia. He may have also viewed it as a means of punishing Egypt for backpedaling on its planned unification with Libya and for not even consulting him before launching the October war against Israel. Gaddafi was so miffed at Egypt's attitude that he refused to attend last November's Arab summit in Algeria...