Word: nostradamus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year later, in the spring of 1946, the now defunct New York newspaper PM published a music column written by "Nostradamus," which attempted to predict the quality of coming musical events. In his final column of the year, discussing the 1946-47 season of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Nostradamus warned his readers to watch out for a conductor named Charles Munch. His success will be immediate and enormous, he predicted...
...great moment in the drama of medicine: the moment when Dr. Faustus opens Nostradamus' secret book, comprehends in a flash the sign of the macrocosm, and is able at last to conjure up the Earth Spirit. But that was not the way Dr. Fleming reported his epochal perception. Said he: "I was sufficiently interested in the antibacterial substance produced by the mold to pursue the subject...
Perhaps the Egyptians had some super Nostradamus who saw clearly and perfectly into the future and counted time backwards just to make things easier for the archeologists. J. W. SHEPLER Chicago...
These sibylline leaves, raked together by Novelist John Cournos, are a publisher's response to the modern impulse that makes Adolf Hitler keep a stable of astrologers, makes desperate Frenchmen con the optimistic prophecies of 7th-Century St. Odile, makes the current U.S. vogue for books about Nostradamus and his dubious doggerel...
...from bright to dark, from inspired vision to inspired foresight. There are prophecies for every pocketbook, every human hope, dream, fear. The most magnificent prophets are still the Jews. This book contains much of Isaiah and Ezekiel, the Book of Revelation complete. Eighty pages are devoted to modish Michael Nostradamus, whose double-talk may or may not predict Hess's flight, Hitler's downfall. St. Odile predicts the end of the Germans-unless she is predicting the end of the Mohammedans, a more pressing danger in the 7th Century. "America's greatest prophet," John Ballou Newbrough, prophesies...