Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Welcome, good people, watch and listen To a play in praise of the prophet Daniel, Beloved of the Lord. Long has he dwelt In brick Babylon, built by a river, Far from Jerusalem, his real home...
...conduct his own works. But last week Stravinsky, 76, sat in the balcony of Manhattan's Town Hall and watched benignly while a slim, intense man mounted the podium and launched the first U.S. performance of Stravinsky's most recent score-Threni: Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah. The conductor: Stravinsky's protégé Robert Craft, at 35 one of the world's leading interpreters of avant-garde music...
...play soon sounds a strongly optimistic note with a stately, cymbal-punctuated procession behind Belshazzar's "comely" Queen ("She will bring forth the unknown prophet"), moves to a dramatic climax as Darius' soldiers march on Belshazzar's court. The remainder of the play traces Daniel's betrayal by Darius' advisers, his escape from the lions' den, his final vision of the time when the "holy one comes/The most holy of the holy," and an angel announces "Christ is born." One of the play's engaging qualities is its childlike mixture of varying emotions...
...onetime Minister of Labor, Ibrahim, 40, has the right to the title Moulay, which is applied to descendants of the Prophet, but he is widely known as the Red Sherif. Before independence, the French jailed Sorbonne-educated Abdallah Ibrahim five times, once for an eight-year stretch. Since independence, backed by the powerful (600,000 members) Union Marocaine du Travail, the nation's only trade union, Ibrahim has ranted against foreigners, talked of nationalizing foreign interests and demanded the ouster of U.S., French and Spanish troops from their bases in Morocco. "Independence is not liberty," he declared recently...
Ironically, the second of existentialism's classical heroes is an antithesis of passionately Christian Kierkegaard-the prophet Friedrich Nietzsche, who proclaimed that "God is dead." It is characteristic of the lack of crystallized structure in modern existentialism that its adherents include both Christians and atheists. Also, that although its practitioners in psychotherapy readily admit their debt to recent and contemporary philosophers (notably, Henri Bergson and the phenomenologists Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger), most of the pioneers began working out an existential approach independently of one another and while still ignorant of its philosophic bases...