Word: prophets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bordering on moral outrage. Even his pastoral baseball nov els of the '50s (The Southpaw, Bang the Drum Slowly) were brushed with sad ness. The undertone of finely controlled anger that ran through Harris' early works grew, in the '60s, into the hectoring shrillness of a prophet scorned...
...aligned himself with die Brucke. Nolde's sensitivity to his medium was extraordinary, and he controlled the purely formal aspects of his work more successfully than any other member of the group. At the same time, his woodcuts have a directness and an emotional intensity rarely equalled. His haunting Prophet, with its subtle interplay of light and shade, is the high point of the show...
Native Israelis take almost as much delight as the tourists do in the contrasts and paradoxes of their extraordinary homeland. Lod was a fortified city in the days of Joshua; its motto is taken from the prophet Jeremiah: "Thy children shall come again to their own border." At the site of this ancient citadel, giant jetliners today disgorge joyous refugees from the Soviet Union, the source of the latest aliyah. Horse-drawn carts rattle through the streets of nearby Ramla, while Phantom and Skyhawk jets scream overhead. Beneath the Qumran caves, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, picnickers romp...
...Martin's Press; $16.95) introduces a Roman Catholic nobleman who triples as an international lawyer and anti-Hitler leader, and who, like Protestant Dietrich Bonhoeffer, paid for his resistance with his life. Without overplaying their hand, Authors Michael Balfour and Julian Frisby make Von Moltke something of a prophet, so concerned with disturbing trends toward materialism and impersonal technocracy that he remains a relevant critic today...
Recent events at the University of Massachusetts have proven him a valuable prophet. The decision at UMass last week to hire Bowles, Herbert M. Gintis and two other radical economists, leaves Harvard with only one lonely radical economist, who is skeptical of what one pioneer can do on a deserted frontier...