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Above the position of "Inner Processean Messenger" is that of "Prophet," one who is preparing to be ordained as a Superior. The Superiors are divided according to function: "Priests" are responsible for the administration of the chapter; "Evangelists" evangelize; the "Matriarch" sees to the spiritual well-being of the chapter. Above them all, concerned not only with running the chapter but also with running and deciding the policy of the Church as a whole, is the "High Master...
...planning it are far too straight to see around the necessary corners, much less through gaps. Describing a conference of scholars on the year 2000, he quotes Chairman Daniel Bell's advice to "think wild." Then he shows how little wild thinking anybody dared to do, even Doomsday Prophet Herman Kahn, who came equipped with statistics, charts and projections. "What is surprising about Kahn's world view," comments Thompson, "is its utter dearth of imagination...
...Schechter told the congregation. Prejudice, hate and selfishness proliferate, he said. "The city is an ecological disaster." No two people today recall quite the same version of the young rabbi's rambling, extemporaneous sermon, but most recall that he quoted from rock lyrics, waved his arms prophet-style, peppered his talk with "hells" and "damns." Reform Judaism, he said, had lost its ability to adapt: "We've frozen the form and killed the spirit." The congregation was both delighted and vexed. "He's great," said one woman. "He's crazy," said her husband...
Artillery Platforms. Israel's decision to move ahead with new housing in Jerusalem weakens its assurances of goodwill in the Jarring talks. The Housing Ministry plans to build up to 10,000 apartments on Nebi Samuel, the 2,937-ft. hill on which the Prophet Samuel is supposed to have been buried and from which the Crusaders caught their first view of the golden city they had journeyed so far to rescue. In 1948 and again in 1967, Nebi Samuel was an artillery platform from which Jordanian gunners devastatingly shelled the modern Jewish city. To eliminate that threat forever...
...Radical Prophet Marcuse concedes that he did not foresee the extent to which the "preventive counterrevolution" has blunted the movement. Says Marcuse, in February's Psychology Today: "It is becoming increasingly costly to use forms of confrontation which were still possible a year ago. What is required is a wholesale re-examination of the strategy of the movement...