Word: seers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then and now, romanticism had a special feeling against Original Sin and for Original Innocence, seeing it exemplified in youth. William Wordsworth hailed a child of six: "Mighty Prophet! Seer blest!" That sentiment was obliquely echoed last summer at the Amherst College commencement; the class valedictorian declared: "Our parents and our teachers believe in adulthood and maturity: our wish is to stay immature as little children." It was meant metaphorically; yet it expressed a profound disillusion with the values of the "older generation"-or perhaps the lack of them. Given little to believe in or rebel against by their liberal...
...like impact that was totally lacking in 1939, when such events seemed isolated from any social context with which the audience was familiar. In those days, Saroyan was known as the "crazy man" of the theater. Now it seems more as if he had the intuitive sanity of a seer...
...Pike had been carrying, but no sign of Pike himself. Eventually, a total of 100 Israeli border policemen, a helicopter and a Piper Cub joined in the search. Assuming that Pike would have sought refuge from the sun, the searchers peered into countless caves along the canyon walls. Philadelphia Seer Arthur Ford, the medium through whom Pike once claimed he had contacted his dead son, called Diane Pike in Jerusalem to tell her he had a vision of her husband, "alive but sick," in a cave not far from where she had left him. But the police insisted that they...
...cheers for President Nixon for not being "active enough" and for not pretending to "define" a "purpose" (in the words of Schlesinger, the pseudoauthoritative seer) [March 28]. Why should he? It seems to me that we've all had a clear enough look at Nixon's charismatic or forceful predecessors whose administrations were full of purpose and the monumental boo-boos that resulted from their purposeful activities. Regarding the complex and high decisions now facing any President, perhaps it is time simply to do what seems best at the moment and in the given situation. No human being...
...dabbling in astrology and more or less related arts. Seeress Sybil Leek's Diary of a Witch is already in its second printing, though her alleged witchcraft seems mainly a device to distinguish her from such colleagues in the prophecy business as the redoubtable Jeane Dixon and British Seer Maurice Woodruff, who does his predicting on a syndicated TV show hosted by Robert Q. Lewis. To lend a little magic to public entertainments, Los Angeles enjoys the services of an official County Witch?a title conferred by the County Supervisor on Mrs. Louise Huebner, a thirtyish "third-generation astrologer...