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Added to this already considerable variety are grim Holocaust tales, a love affair and the adventures of an ex-newspaper reporter who decides to bring a few stories to an end by murdering their evil protagonists. Oh yes, and Father Pemberton, now defrocked, comes to believe that he has found an answer to his doubts...
...Wiesel's acquaintances is impressive--United States presidents and Israeli prime ministers, other Nobel laureates, Francois Mitterrand, Mikhail S. Gorbachev and many others. Wiesel does not attempt to recount the history of the past 30 years, but he calls on it. He provides his reactions to the Bitburg Affair and to events in the former Yugoslavia. He assumes knowledge of current history that we should all share. I doubt we all do. He implicitly challenges us to be informed--to contribute to the maintenance of social memory...
...event to event. He pulls us, splashing, along the surface of the years. But he soon slows and we sink deeper--into his thoughts about living in the Diaspora, a tension that will return again and again. He delves into long discussions of Reagan's actions in the Bitburg Affair and of French president Francois Mitterrand. His thoughts are fascinating. I have said that Wiesel's reflections are not emotionally intimate. This does not make them less emotionally powerful. His words are personal, intellectual. Indirectly yet still consciously, they call upon a deep reservoir of personal and Jewish experience...
There was no formality to the entire affair. Players warmed up and started their matches at their leisure. The even numbered seeds went first and everybody plays at the same time-- diminishing the attention placed on any one match...
...Paul S. Grogan, Harvard's vice president for government, community and public affairs, yesterday's trip to Washington was a routine affair. But for the University, more frequent communication with the surrounding community and the nation's press symbolizes Harvard's increasing emphasis on telling its story...