Word: seers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What does a seer of the American scene expect...
When the news broke last week that Nancy Reagan regularly consulted a woman astrologer about the President's schedule, reporters immediately scrambled to discover the mysterious seer's identity. Who was this "Friend" from San Francisco who had so much influence in determining when the President of the U.S. would -- or would not -- hold press conferences, deliver speeches, journey abroad? Not even Donald Regan, whose new book tells of the First Lady's reliance on the seer, learned the answer during his two years as White House chief of staff...
Quigley's interest in the stars began at the age of 15. As a lark, her mother decided to visit an astrologer. Upon hearing about the session, Joan marveled at the seer's prescience and was hooked. After graduating from Vassar in 1947, Quigley returned to San Francisco where the very same astrologer, an elderly Scotchwoman, took her under her wing. Quigley went on to write about astrology for Seventeen magazine and in books and to make regular radio and television appearances...
...latest of the kiss-and-tell books on the Reagan Administration, revealed the regular use of astrology by the man who once said "trees cause pollution, too." Coverage in the media focused first on the practice's humorous aspects, the absurd images of Nancy Reagan and her faithful seer organizing the President's daily schedules according to the movements of the planets. I laughed until I cried...
More than 400 years ago, the great Italian seer Nostradamus took a day out of his busy schedule to scratch on clay tablets his predictions for each year of the second half of the 20th century. Then he sent the predictions to 14 Plympton Street, which he had foreseen to be the future site of The Harvard Crimson. He's been right before, so here are his predictions for 1988, printed in their entirety...