Word: seer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might not be a bad idea. A Cabinet of gargantuan size would force the soothsayers out into the open, and the public could select those with genuine imaginative powers from the common herd of predictors. As it is, almost every seer is compelled to inflict the same old ordinary palaver on his audience. Few variations are possible--such as suggesting Eisenhower for Secretary of Agriculture instead of Defense--and these have been nearly exhausted by now. So have the prophets; and, it is fervently to be hoped, the public will get a little tired...
...Nicholas on Harvard again this week," replied the Seer with dis-Gresh-ion. "Even though they say that the Bruins have a line of Livingstone, we'll Paterno them back, and send them on the Rodewig Thompson to think about...
...this is told in flashback; now the seer's alarm is focused on Virginia's grown-up daughter (Gail Russell). He becomes entangled in a whole chain of symbolic predictions about her: a crushed flower, shaken windows, violent death in starlight at 11 sharp, at the feet of a lion. Gail's scientific sweetheart (John Lund), Detective Shawn (William Demarest) and various shifty-looking businessmen who might profit by Gail's death, all act as if Robinson were crazy or criminal. Everybody tries to keep him away from the menaced young woman he is trying...
...Life is no Halladay," snapped Diverio-ld Seer in-Degnan-ly. "It's no Beaulieu cherries, but Albaness-y on you. Stetter sitting on your Haas, you Sullivan gun, Bryson predicting on the game. That takes Moran DeFilippe a Coyno. I say: Harvard 20 Holy Cross...
...mystic, an amateur of esoteric doctrines. . . . Henry Wallace No. 2 is an opportunist, adapting himself to the pressures of the moment, ready to forswear his deepest convictions for immediate gain. . . . Wallace can only alternately express the two sides of his nature, thinking one moment like a Tibetan seer and the next like a cost accountant, acting one moment like St. Francis of Assisi and the next like Boss Hague...