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...greatest man in the world today?" Abraham Aaron Roback, onetime Harvard instructor, thinks he knows. Roback has never seen him, but for five years he has been working on a book to honor him, "a man without parallel, in our generation." The great man's name: Albert Schweitzer...
Last week Roback published the Albert Schweitzer Jubilee Book in a limited edition of 1,050 copies. It included essays by Roback and 22 other scholars, many of them topflight,* who largely share Roback's admiration-though not to his worshipful extent-for Albert Schweitzer...
...generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people," he was insulting his neighbors to the north as seriously-and as jokingly-as a coffeehouse wit could. In the 370 pages of his just-published Dictionary of International Slurs (Sci-Art; $6.25), Cambridge's Dr. Abraham Aron Roback, since 1926 lecturer in Massachusetts' University Extension Division, sees such insults as no joking matter. His dictionary is an earnest contribution to education in internationalism, aimed to expose the way in which men of different nations have mistrusted and misjudged each other through the ages...
...confine oneself to slurs and not include also the complimentary allusions?" asks Author Roback, assailing such "wrongheadedness." The answer, according to Dr. Roback, is simple: such complimentary allusions are virtually nonexistent...
Representing the Psychological Corporation and directing all its polling activities around Boston is A. A. Roback, Ph.D. '17, internationally renowned writer, columnist, and lecturer on psychology. Roback, who lives at 8 Prescott Street, has been giving a number of courses for the University's Extension Service...