Word: prophetically
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...this week set sail for Mecca in British ships, convoyed by the Royal Navy, paying pre-war fares ($52 for deck space, $186 first class) for the privilege. Government subsidies will offset any possible loss to the shipowners. In his resting place (halfway between heaven and earth), Mohammed the Prophet was doubtless gratified...
...futile 'for the U. S. to enter the war for she will be too late." ^ The U. S. must prepare to cooperate "economically and spiritually" with Germany on a "barter basis-the only basis Germany now knows, because she was forced to employ the barter system." Added Prophet Merten on a hint from wife Zelah: "I beg, after consideration, that you mention my connections with the American Embassy in Berlin only on your social pages, in a separate story, rather than in this interview which I dictated." Still on the Embassy payroll for two months' accumulated leave...
These twistings and turnings, suggests Biographer Kraus, result from the fact that Winston Churchill is a minor politician, but a major prophet and inspired visionary. At the best moments of his life, thinks Kraus, Churchill functioned as England's voice and conscience...
...Modernist Architect Walter Gropius invited Klee to teach drawing at his famous Bauhaus technical art school in Weimar. In the middle '20s Parisian surrealists hailed him as a prophet. Frenchmen, usually supercilious toward German art, began collecting his infantile drawings. In 1931 Klee went on to be a professor at the Düsseldorf Academy. Meanwhile, U. S. modern-art connoisseurs bought his ectoplasmic scratchings at $750 a canvas...
...World War II, III. . . :) the coming Caesars, victors over Capital; 3) declining birth rates; 4) decay of art from high style to petty cult problems; 5) budgets of billions not millions; 6) suicidal crumbling of democracy, etc. He did not predict imminent collapse of Western civilization. Said solemn Prophet Spengler: "We are still many generations short of that point...