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...observes Elie Wiesel, "feels closer to the prophet Elijah than to his next-door neighbor." Analyzing like a good modern, revering like a good Jew, Wiesel portrays in these essays the majestic figures of the Old Testament rather as if he were writing a memoir about beloved but salty grandfathers and great-uncles from the East Side. Certainly Moses and Cain and Abel and even Adam seem as pungently real to him as the Jews he knew as a child in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. In returning to the first Diaspora, the first murder, the first exile, Author Wiesel appears...
...Prophet Honored...
Paine did write occasionally on political questions, but it was the news of last spring's skirmish at Lexington and Concord that turned him into the fiery prophet of the new America he saw taking form. Says he: "It was the cause of America that made me an author. I neither read books nor studied other people's opinions?I thought for myself." He adds that he has not earned a shilling from the huge popularity of his pamphlet (under his arrangement with Printer Robert Bell, Paine's half of the profits was to be donated to buy mittens...
...learned of the new technique, he tried to persuade local doctors to inoculate as many citizens as possible during the epidemic of 1721. But the city's leading physician called inoculation an "infatuation" and denounced as heathen any treatment adapted from "the Musselmen and faithful people of the prophet Mahomet." Only Mather's friend Dr. Zabdiel Boylston agreed to try the new tactic. Complained Mather: "Not only the physician who began the experiment but I also am the object of the [people's] fury." One opponent of inoculation threw a bomb through Mather's window. Another...
...primary doctrine of the Moon organization, which held rallies in 1974 to oppose the impeachment of former President Nixon, is that Moon is a prophet of Christ and that the second coming of the Messiah--whom the Church hints is Moon himself--is imminent...