Word: seers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prophets and Poets. Also from Africa came a tribal tradition of the poet as wiseman and prophet, interpreter of the past and seer of the future. According to Poet Nikki Giovanni: "There is no difference between the warrior, the poet, and the people. Like Stokely is a poet and so is Rap Brown...
...papers: . . . Clairvoyant Maurice Woodruff makes the following predictions in the current McCall's: Jackie Onassis will have a son this year, but her marriage "won't last more than another year and a half or two years." (It is Ari who will leave, according to the seer.) Ethel Kennedy will go into politics; Ronald Reagan will lose the California gubernatorial race; and "I doubt Spiro Agnew will serve his full time in office." . . . She looked more like a heroine of the Bolshevik Revolution than the reigning monarch of Britain. But it was Queen Elizabeth II all right-facial...
...sons and daughters/Bravely into Space ..." The common obscenity is "fight," as in "fight you" or "you brother-fighter." On less vehement occasions the universal expression is "Christ, Marx, Wood and Wei," the four deities of the drugged society. Christ and Marx, O.K. Wei is a mischief-making Oriental seer who appears in the book. But who's Wood? The author has hinted that he made Wood up. But could it possibly be Speed-Reading Guru Evelyn Wood, who has, after all, taught millions to read by waving their fingers over the text...
...lack the statesman's surest strength, his reasonable chances of success by inadvertence. A novelist whose writing takes even the slightest notice of his society is obliged to make some sense of the times. That is his franchise, and fool luck will not help. He must be a seer or, at a minimum, the rarest sort of charlatan...
There is nothing of the charlatan in Saul Bellow, and perhaps it is time to admit that he is a seer. The author of The Adventures of Angle March, Henderson the Rain King and Herzog observes his age with no excessive charity. Chaos? Yes. Senselessness? Yes. Disintegration and despair? Be the author's guest. The dour view itself is not remarkable. Well-wrought chaos and subtly evoked senselessness have never been in such abundant literary supply. A reader thinks, with varying respect, of Mailer, Heller, Vonnegut, Cheever, Barth...