Word: prophet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vocal soloists with chorus and full orchestra-but with no trumpets, and a Flügelhorn and alto trombone added-was presented by Venice's International Festival of contemporary music. Stravinsky's text and title-Threni, id est Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae (Threnody: Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah)-come from three of the familiar elegies from the Catholic Vulgate Bible. Written in the tone-row technique that Stravinsky once scorned but has lately adopted, the work has a spare, transparent orchestral accompaniment that for long stretches consists of no more than an occasional chord. To prepare the Hamburg Radio...
Ezra Taft Benson, once a Republican hairshirt, is now generally regarded as a true prophet because he has consistently tried to bring some sense to the chaotic farm-subsidy program...
These origins are enacted in 13 major scenes by 325 volunteer actors. Scene I shows Jesus telling of his "other sheep," the Mormons. In 600 B.C., they believe, a prophet called Lehi was told by God to leave Jerusalem. He took his family to the American continent. Here the house of Lehi split into two warring nations: the good, God-fearing Nephites, begetters of white children, and the bad, idolatrous Lamanites, whose children God punished with a red skin-hence the American Indians...
...Mormons was Christ's crucifixion -after which, according to the Mormons, he came to America and organized his true Christian church among the Nephites (Scene XIII), who flourished for centuries before falling into wicked ways themselves and being destroyed in battle by the Lamanites. Mormon was a Nephite prophet who set down this history and God's will for the future upon golden tablets and entrusted them to his son Moroni, who buried them in the Hill Cumorah...
...rise up and kill Hussein." And the reply of Hussein's Amman radio was to ask Iraqis: "Why have you not avenged the innocent blood shed in Baghdad? Would you leave the honor of revenge for others? What is the use of living if descendants of the Prophet are killed before your eyes? Take revenge, brothers. God is with...