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...concept of heaven or hell. Anti-social behavior was not bad, merely an absence of good; loyalty to the tribe was the supreme rule. In St. Patricks time, you didn't travel across the borders of the kingdoms unless you had been invited or were a famous poet or seer. Safe conduct was far from guaranteed, which is why St. Patrick spread the word of Christianity accompanied by 15 armed and armored princes on horseback...
...under consideration for the coaching job at his alma mater, the University of Michigan, should perhaps consider changing occupations. The man who has guided the Tigers to a 79-21 record and six Eastern Seaboard Championships since taking over in 1971, could probably make a fortune as a seer or a mystic...
...Sage and seer though he was, Shakespeare could not have guessed at the prophetic accuracy of his own lines or have foreseen that in 1979 they would be spoken in the accents of Manhattan's black and Spanish Harlem. As always, genius defies augury...
Whenever final loyalty or trust rests in humanity or a human being- whether guru or general, seer or scientist, priest, president or pop pschologist-then dreams will be shattered and hopes destroyed, and the agony of alienation or the despair of death will seem to be the only alternatives...
...Garth and Deardourff best typify this frenetic business. Deardourff spent one recent week racing to Florida for an anti-casino campaign; then to Venezuela for the presidential race, where he is opposed not only by Garth but also by the legendary Joe Napolitan, onetime seer for Hubert Humphrey; then to Detroit, where he is handling the re-election campaign of Governor William Milliken; then to Ohio to write some TV spots for Governor Rhodes; then to Pennsylvania for a conference with Gubernatorial Candidate Richard Thornburgh. Says Deardourff: "You either win or you lose, and people who lose fall...