Word: wiesel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Elie Wiesel arranged this visit to parts of what used to be Yugoslavia. He tells a press conference later that Sarajevo looks to him like "a ghost city, a tragedy formed into a city, like a city in Germany in 1945." He says, "I saw a cat that was a ruin of a cat. I saw a dog that was a ghost of a dog." He says, "I feel the time has come to weep...
...Wiesel leads his delegation into the palace of Alija Izetbegovic, Muslim President of the shrunken republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, which is only an archipelago of besieged fortresses now. Wiesel has come to try to project a little of his luminous sanity and decency in the war zone, to hold everyone to a higher standard and possibly to make some of the killers ashamed of what they are doing. In an ornate ceremonial room painted toxic green, Wiesel, wonder rabbi out of Auschwitz, sits side by side with Izetbegovic, whom the nationalist Serbs see as the spearhead of a fundamentalist Muslim...
...Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, author James Baldwin, Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller, Governor of Puerto Rico Raphael Hernandez-Colon, National Science Foundation Head Walter Massey, Northern Ireland leader John Hume, Berkeley Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien, U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, scholar-athlete Arthur Ashe (to name a few), to panel discussions, films and debates on every conceivable aspect of race relations...
...Elie Wiesel quotes a Hasidic rabbi's prayer, "I have but one request; may I never use my reason against truth." Wiesel's grandfather believed "An objective Hasid is not a Hasid." The value of miracles hinges upon these distinctions. The subjective and objective flow into one another until the + distinction between the two is meaningless, just as the distinction between God and human vanishes. Reason has its mechanical uses in an ordinary world but is counterproductive in the higher realms that miracles inhabit. So says the believer's mystic line...
What is the use of traditional miracles now? Perhaps, as Elie Wiesel once suggested, people need reassurance that miracles are still possible, even for them: the dreariest fate may be reversed. The miracle is antidote to the despair that arises from sheer inevitability. The disintegration of Soviet communism, said to have been foretold at Fatima, has had a surreal quality of the miraculous reversal about...