Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...random digs at classics clubs ("I, connoisseur of good reading, friend of con noisseurs of good reading everywhere"), sloppy diction ("what one weather prophet on the radio calls 'inner mitten' showers"), "personalized" writing ("As for us, we would as lief Simoniz our grandmother as personalize our writing"), usually blend good fun with good sense. Full of engaging tidbits, the "dog's breakfast" does not offer much to chew, but more than enough to tickle the taste buds...
Last night, as the paper went to bed, it was raining steadily outside the Crimson Printing Company's offices at 14 Plympton St. There has been some disagreement over whether this deluge was predicted with sufficient accuracy by the local weather prophet...
...address in a radio broadcast to the citizens of Israel. He was convinced that, "in spite of excessive party fragmentation . . . the people of Israel are far more united at heart than many imagine." Then he concluded with a definition of faith, in his version of the words of the Prophet Habakkuk: "Righteous man lives by his faith. He will not preach to others, will not act the saint by calling on others to live justly, will not look for fault in his neighbour. But he will practice his faith in his daily life-he will live it." Next week...
...some hundreds of years, he can be no better than a fool who denies the legitimacy of study of the mechanical details by which expression is achieved." Hermann Hagerdorn '07, New York playwright and former student of Baker's wrote a letter to the CRIMSON calling Baker "a prophet who is without honor in his own country...
...world's first really workable helicopter,* and more recent work in which he has helped bring the device to its present state of windmilling efficiency. Today, at 64, he is not only an honored pioneer of the brave, oil-spattered world of pre-Sarajevo aviation but also the paramount prophet of a completely new era of flight...