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Word: seers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggest courses for the coming term. The most basic courses--Economics 1, Mathematics 1, Government 1--are evident even to the untutored eye. But many less obvious, although not obscure offerings might be a boon to those who seek outside their own field for edification. It is these our seer has descried...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shopping Around: M.W.F. | 9/28/1964 | See Source »

...unearthly 1935 novel The Circus of Dr. Lao, Randall solves other people's "plobrems." The film is a veritable fortune cookie: a frothy dab of nothing and inside a message about the frailty of man's illusions. To deliver it, Randall also impersonates: Merlin the magician; a seer; the Abominable Snowman; a talking snake; a syrinx-playing satyr who pipes away inhibitions; and a Medusa who turns a small town shrew to stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fortune Cookie | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

...most brilliant mind of the 18th century? A good case could be made for Newton, Voltaire, Samuel Johnson-or for Emanuel Swedenborg, the polymathic scientist and seer whose fame lingers on not just in literature but in churches that honor his writing as the vehicle for the second coming of God's word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theologians: The New Jerusalem | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

...133rd semiannual conference unless church leaders broke silence and formally denounced segregation. N.A.A.C.P. leaders finally heard what they had been waiting for last week in an address by Hugh D. Brown, newly chosen First Counselor to David O. McKay, 90, who is the Mormons' First President, Prophet, Seer, Revelator and Trustee-in-Trust. "We would like it to be known," said Brown, "that there is in this church no doctrine, belief or practice that is intended to deny the enjoyment of full civil rights by any person regardless of race, color or creed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mormons: The Negro Question | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

...presidential inauguration, blinking in the cold sunlight like Tiresias. the blind seer of old, he took a great bard's ancient place beside the spiritual and temporal princes of his world. The voice, as it was whenever he "said" his verses, seemed far from poetic-dry, spare, matter-of-fact. But in the silence that followed any poem Frost spoke, an attentive listener was likely to find himself still a captive of its cadences. "The land was ours before we were the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Lover's Quarrel With the World | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

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