Word: seers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painting art, all the invention of painters, and all the knowledge of painting of the past." In the center panel of the triptych (see cut) a Greek warrior, representing Europe torn between East and West, stands hesitant. To his right, in an ascending crescent, are a traitor, a seer, and a standoffish sort of god. To his left, the battle rages, a lost one, because "battles are always lost...
...this world. These facts are endorsed and corroborated by the proofs of survival and of spiritual existence after the death of the physical body, which are embodied in the knowledge and teachings of what is known as spiritualism." Once he maintained that "everyone has the capacity to be a seer...
...beachcombing seer who lives on sea lettuce and stolen candy bars...
...pianists living today. Last month, after listening to him in a program of Beethoven, including the difficult 55-minute "Diabelli" Variations, the London Times granted him the full range of pianistic talents: "Demoniac violence . . . ethereal cantabile . . . the phenomenal technique of a virtuoso and the vision of a seer." Amsterdam's Het Parool called his playing "sublime ... an overwhelming experience...
...year-old goatherd, when he was taken in by a Church of Scotland mission in Kiambu and treated for a spinal disease. The mission educated him, baptized him Johnstone Kamau. After this he learned carpentry, edited the first Kikuyu-language newspaper and studied black magic. "My grandfather was a seer and a magician," he later wrote, "and in traveling about with him and carrying his bag of equipment, I served a kind of apprenticeship in the principles of the art." In 1929 he was sent to London to present Kikuyu grievances to the British government. His view: "Africans...