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...last week accepted a New York State-endowed Albert Schweitzer Chair in Humani ties at Fordham University. He and three aides will share $100,000 a year for research in the field of comparative cultures...
...religious philosophy, she is a radiant, darkly handsome woman who fortifies her self with yoga exercises learned from Violinist Yehudi Menuhin's guru in India, and daily rations of a syrupy mixture of ground-up acorns, figs and raw oatmeal. Last year she visited Bach Scholar Albert Schweitzer in Gabon, played Mozart and Bach for him every night for five weeks; he spent his last days listening to her recording of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto. In February, she will become an artist in residence at Texas Christian University...
...member nations of the Bank and Fund met in Washington, the U.S. found it easier to keep quiet and let others do the talking. "Personally, I don't see how any currency can be considered better than the dollar," said the Fund's managing director Pierre-Paul Schweitzer. "We see no unloading of the dollar in the private sectors, from private holdings, for conversion into gold. This alone is distinct proof of the soundness of the dollar...
...like a noble caricature, all the legendary qualities of the English. Not that pugnacity is essential. Americans see Pope John XXIII as a hero because he exuded love and managed to combine the saintly with the jolly. Many Americans would also accord the status of saint-hero to Albert Schweitzer, because they cherish the sentimental picture of the man who gave up the world in order to do good works in a dark corner of the globe. But Schweitzer perhaps lived too long. "Every hero becomes a bore at last," said Emerson...
Also honored were Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, who received an LL.D.; and the president-elect of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Howard W. Johnson, who also received a Doctor of Laws degree...