Word: prophets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That record companies and pop magazines pushed Dylan as prophet was natural. If Dylan did not strenuously reject the title, he did not truly claim the mantle either. As early as 1964, Dylan could write songs like "My Back Pages," caricaturing his earlier moralism as over serious self righteousness...
Determination of the point spread is a fine, intuitive art practiced by an elite group of Las Vegas odds makers. Though Martin, 54, has officially retired from the Churchill Downs Sports Book, he remains the chief prophet of the establishment known as "the Church." More-publicized experts, such as Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, have been known to check their picks against Martin's. "There's nothing mysterious about setting the line," Martin insists. During the regular season, when spreads are selected for the 13 games each weekend, Martin watches games on TV, consults the U.P.I, sports wire...
...Latter-day Saints, whenever there is a vacancy, falls to the senior member of the church's governing Council of Twelve Apostles. Last week, following tradition, the council "invited, sustained and ordained" Spencer Woolley Kimball, 78, as the church's new president. Kimball thus became the fourth "prophet, seer and revelator" of the Mormons in as many years. President David O. McKay died in 1970 at 96, Joseph Fielding Smith hi 1972 at 95, and Harold B. Lee, the most recent incumbent and longtime guiding administrative genius of the church, just two weeks...
...rose to prominence in church circles as a welfare worker during the Depression, eventually developed the program into a $20 million enterprise. Named a member of the church's governing Council of the Twelve Apostles in 1941, Lee was one of the youngest men ever to become "prophet, seer, and revelator" of the Mormons. Lee succeeded 95-year-old Joseph Fielding Smith upon his death 18 months...
...York City's Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine was honoring a prodigal son: Episcopalian-born Tennessee Williams, 59. The first recipient of the cathedral's centennial medal acclaiming "the Artist as Prophet," Williams was lauded as "the foremost playwright of our age." But about returning to the fold, a whimsical Williams was equivocal. Born in the shadow of a grandfather who, at the age of 97, was ordained a "High Episcopalian" minister, Williams had allowed himself to be converted to Roman Catholicism during the '60s. "What does it matter, anyhow?" he asked, adding that...