The life, work, and reception of Nikolai Kliuev (1884-1937) provide striking illustrations of the intense preoccupation in Russian culture with the association between poetry and prophecy, between poet and prophet. Kliuev's work abounds in prophetic statements of many kinds, while he frequently and selfconsciously positioned himself as a "prophet" and explicitly identified his work as "propheti...

The book of Ezekiel can probably lay claim to being the least among the Major Prophets as far as recent scholarly interest and output go.1 This study is intended to ready this situation to some degree by providing a detailed textrhetorical perspective on a crucial segment that begins the third major portion of Ezekiel's prophecy: chapters 33-37.' This section is especially appealing because of ...

I MUST thank you for the great honour which the Council of the Society has done me in asking me to be your President for the incoming session. I appreciate the honour greatly, though it entails certain responsibilities, not the least being this agony of words, usually called the Presidential address. Even the choice of a subject worthy of the occasion gives cause for thought. I could deal with ...

Abstract Ethnic and racial disparities in educational outcomes, such as test scores, are a core issue of research. While the role student family factors formation is well established, existing studies fail to draw similarly clear picture how teachers contribute ethnic achievement gaps. In contrast previous studies, which focussed on consequences rather blatant forms discrimination, teachers’ gr...

In 2 experiments the authors investigated how verb choice in question formulation influences respondents' answers. These studies show that (a) as hypothesized, the choice of verb type (action vs, state) in forming a question influences interviewees' narratives systematically by impacting, inter alia, which individual is implicitly described as the causal originator of a social event; (b) interv...

Here we are making some predictions based on three methods: a straightforward extrapolations of the existing trends; a self-fulfilling prophecy; and picking some current grievances and predicting that they will be addressed or solved. We predict the growth of multicore computing and dramatic growth of data, as well as the improvements in force fields and sampling methods. We also predict that e...