Word: prophetic
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...times of the year; new confirmation, however, of this result appears in one of the several guidebooks to the city of Boston, which states that the daily chapel attendance, in the period before examinations, increases three or four hundred per cent. Here is matter alike for the preacher, the prophet, and the psychologist. The daily chapel attendance at Appleton is usually neither so large nor so small as to cause exceptional comment; that in periods of stress and strain it increases to such an extent is noteworthy...
Last week Margarete Matzenauer was again the mother "dearer than Bertha" to her son the Prophet- this time Giovanni Martinelli, though Mme. Matzenauer has often been "dearer" to the late Enrico Caruso...
...Both Prophet and Mother were superb in voice and gesture, last week, and their passions soared above Bertha ''Leonora Corona) with a spiritual fervor exceeding the carnal dynamics of Oedipus...
Martinelli (as the prophet whose fanatical followers crown him a Dutch Rex in 16th Century Holland) put aside his tendency to blustery winds of song and wrung his effects from masterful restraint. Amid settings by Joseph Urban the "Ice Ballet" was realistically skated without ice, the castle was dynamited without dynamite, and the penultimate coronation scene achieved a splendor eclipsed only by such scenic orgies as the Metropolitan's Turandot...
...contribution is welcome or at least not unworthy of consumption. Therefore it is gratifying to learn the attitude of other colleges and universities, since thus is the Vagabond furnished with the sole concrete justification of his existence. If others offer him commendations he is partially assured that as a prophet he is not entirely without honor in his own country...