Word: prophets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writer, not a playboy, Communist, world-saver, dilettante, or U. S. prophet. Writing is my work. I take pride in this work, and when it is good I am as pleased to say so as TIME, for instance, is pleased in its advertisements to say it is the best magazine of its kind in America...
...analysis of Dostoievsky's "Brothers Karamazov" by Ernest J. Simmons, Assistant Professor of English, brought about 50 members of the Modern Language conference to the Leverett House Junior Common Room last night, as he emphasized Dostoievsky's importance as a novelist, rather than as a prophet...
Bitterly disappointed, Prophet Moses told the Supervisors: "We offered you a suggestion and you have rejected it. You will have to abide by the consequences...
Amherst villagers declared last week that Sandford, now a bearded prophet of 76, was to be seen of moonlit nights near the cult's farm. Neither Dean Neidlinger, however, nor a sheriff, nor newshawks who visited the farm saw him. Heavenly Gates declared: "I have found the peace I have been looking for." Dean Neidlinger, satisfied there was "no monkey business" about Gates's trip to the farm, departed announcing that Gates was still free to return to Dartmouth. At length, after four days of wrestling with what by week's end had become the most publicized...
...third: "Love." The announcement of this program makes dawning sense, for if Saroyan appears in his stories in any consistent role, it is as a sort of humanist jumping jack, waiting only until he has written a few more Books of Saroyan to leap forward as a U. S. prophet...