Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brass made me put a prologue and epilogue on Invasion of the Body Snatchers that damn near ruined the whole thing," he recalls. "And after the first screening of Riot in Cell Block 11, all the executives filed out without saying a single word. I sometimes feel like a prophet without honor in my own land...
...means of his style Wolfe does attempt to force feed a significance into what we read. For a moment the trick works, and an aura of newness shimmers about Kesey and the Pranksters. I believed myself to be in the presence of some new prophet, of a new and radical insight. But then, a moment away from the presence of the style, and the outlines of the event began to blur, the figure of Kesey himself became insubstantial. In the end the Christ-like robes Wolfe fashioned for Kesey are much too large. We are left with another acid-head...
Goldwater as Prophet...
...Prophet Marshall McLuhan has just invaded what he calls the "hot" medium of printed journalism. As he sees it, people are so absorbed with old-fashioned words that they don't even notice the tidal wave of change about to engulf them. To help them "survive," he says, he is putting out a monthly newsletter called The McLuhan Dew-Line. It is intended to "raise a mighty scream" to warn readers of the imminent electronics takeover...
...love, in the early novels (Crome Yellow, Antic Hay and Point Counter Point), it meant sex. And sex to Huxley was disgusting man at his most disgusting-something that he approached, as that prophet of passion D. H. Lawrence put it, with the "desperate courage of repulsion." The poem attributed to one of Huxley's characters in Ape and Essence is unmistakably in the author's voice...