Word: prophetic
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...shroud would be more of an enigma if it were proved to be a 14th century artifact. However, even if it is the handiwork of a person, it seems to represent some force or intelligence beyond our understanding. Perhaps it should be regarded as a revelation from an unknown prophet to a future generation, an expression so tangible that even an age so obsessed with material things as our own might understand it, just as the disciple Thomas was allowed to touch the wounds of our Lord with his own hands in order to believe and have faith. DANIEL MERCER...
DIED. ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, 62, former Black Panther firebrand and prophet of black empowerment; of undisclosed causes; in Pomona, Calif. While serving a jail term for assault, Cleaver took up the idea of black power and penned Soul on Ice, his radical 1968 polemic on black rage. He joined the Black Panther Party on his release. Two years later, after a gunfight with police in Oakland, he fled to Algeria, Cuba and Paris, living in exile for eight years. Abroad, he embraced fervent anticommunism and evangelical Christianity. Addiction to crack and petty crimes followed his return...
Historians' comments: "The great prophet of affirmative government"; "The best example of an 'activist' President. Bully...
...said. "Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check; a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'" These were not the words of a cardboard saint advocating a Hallmark card-style version of brotherhood. They were the stinging phrases of a prophet, a man demanding justice not just in the hereafter, but in the here...
Milton Viorst, a Middle East specialist, is the author of In the Shadow of the Prophet...