Word: wiesel
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...Context of a Transforming Supreme Court,” is the last she is teaching here as her stint at Harvard ends. When the group reached the river, Verdi’s Requiem sounded from a portable stereo. Benshoof read several quotations, including one from Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel that said, “The opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” After the reading, the group launched the coffin into the Charles River and then tried to burn pages from the majority opinion. After one student successfully lit a piece of paper...
...added. The Harvard Foundation Humanitarian award was inaugurated in 1984 as a way to recognize those individuals who commit themselves to improving humanity and advancing human rights. The first recipient was Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr. He was followed by Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu and holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel...
...long and passionately as an idea before descending to hard history. When Elie Wiesel's mind drifts to the Holy Land, his expressive face grows radiant. ''We live in biblical times,'' says Wiesel. ''Think of all that has been accomplished in 40 years.'' A national home for every Jew in the world, an ingathering from more than 100 countries -- although, of course, 9.3 million of the world's Jews remain in the Diaspora. The resurrection of a dormant language, Hebrew, for everyday use, a constantly renewed and invented tongue that has helped compose a functioning society, and democracy...
...Speaking for the Silent In 1985 Elie Wiesel [INTERVIEW, Feb. 6] received the Congressional Gold Medal from Ronald Reagan "in recognition of his ... contributions to world literature and human rights." In describing Wiesel's achievements, TIME wrote of his witnessing the Holocaust and his memoir Night, currently a selection of Oprah's Book Club. Here is an excerpt from that article [March...
...Night appeared in France with an introduction by [French novelist Fran?ois] Mauriac. The little book set the Wiesel style: austere, tense phrases articulating the unspeakable?the murder and torture of the innocent, the martyrdom of faith itself as a child watches the hanging of another child: 'Where is God? Where is he? ... And I heard a voice within me answer: Where is he? Here he is?he is hanging here on this gallows.' Some 20 American publishers rejected Night. 'The Holocaust was not something people wanted to know about in those days,' the author remembers. 'The diary of Anne Frank...