Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moon is not Author Fuller's first demonstration of his invincible faith in man's future. Designer of the famed Dymaxion- house, inventor of the three-wheeled, streamlined Dymaxion car, Buckminster Fuller is a New Englander who looks like a businessman and talks like a prophet of the coming technological millennium. A Harvard alumnus, he decoded radio messages in the navy during the War, became a manufacturer of molds for reinforced concrete afterwards, and in 1927, when he lost control of his business, settled in Chicago slums for a year to work out his ideas of modern society...
...Defense of Palestine to determine whether Iraqis should engage in a jihad-holy war -for their Arab brothers in Palestine, the ecclesiastics of Iraq's holy cities pondered over their Koran, read the Moslem traditions, looked into precedents, ruled last week that according to the words of the Prophet a jihad was called...
...Samuel Insull one June day in 1932, "to be newspaper copy." That was the morning when with his fabulous utility empire collapsing around him, Sam Insull was taking leave of the last of the 150-odd companies over which he had long been lord and master. As a news-prophet, Mr. Insull was far from right. His fantastic flight through Europe, his year's fugitive exile in Greece, his enforced return to the U. S., his sensational criminal trials in Chicago made many a front-page piece of newspaper copy for many a day. But on that morning...
...Director Heinrich Conried. The grounds for this protest were moral. Its cause was a new opera which had just been given its Metropolitan premiere. In the opera a necrophilic heroine disrobed before her gloating, drunken stepfather, demanding as the price of her strip tease the head of an imprisoned prophet. To the severed head, duly served up on a platter, she made more or less violent love. The plot was Oscar Wilde's, but the opera's composer had italicized its gruesomeness with uncanny naturalism. For sheer horror nothing like it had ever been witnessed on the austere...
...Coronation March from "The Prophet"Meyerbeer *"Poet and Peasant," Overture Suppe *Country Gardens Grainger *Fantasia, "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagni *Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner *Marche Slave Tchaikovsky *Fantasy, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" Churchill-Bodge *"Espana" Waltzes Waldteufel March, "Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...