Word: prophets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Duchamp's early paintings. The man who consecrated the second half of his life to chess has about his work the air of supremely intelligent, bloodless derision. There is almost no sign of human affection or concern; only the shrewd, anticipatory aspect of a mocking prophet...
Dorothy Day was in jail again last week, and when Dorothy Day goes to jail, it is usually for a cause worth examining. Since her first arrest as a suffragette in 1917, the 75-year-old author-activist has proved herself a prophet of causes that others will eventually join. A redoubtable spokeswoman for pacifism and social reform, she earned an almost annual trip to New York City jails during the '50s for her refusal to participate in compulsory air-raid drills. This time she was arrested, with more than 2,100 Mexican-Americans and members of the Catholic...
Patience is the prophet's greatest ally. In 1900, three years before the Wright brothers puttered over the sand at Kitty Hawk, Wells foretold the modern air armada in The Shape of Things to Come. On the eve of World War I, after reading a book about radium, he wrote The World Set Free, a novel that predicted the atomic bomb with such imaginative precision that the late physicist Leo Szilard acknowledged that the book had inspired the building of his own apparatus for starting chain reactions...
...years ago, I now thank God he lost. Upon witnessing his taking joy in sitting beside the pro-liberal, pro-busing, reduce-American-military-might Edward Kennedy [July 9], I've awakened and I hope that many more are aware of Wallace's true colors: a false prophet and political phony. Those are qualities that America, in her present condition, does not need in a President...
...recent issue of The American Baha'i, the religion is said to be spreading "like a hungry flame" across Carolina sharecropping districts. The message-- "Have you heard the good news? ...God has sent a new Prophet to the world... His Laws will eliminate poverty, prejudice, injustice..." --was greeted by more than four thousand converts in the first four weeks...