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...Because he loved animals so, we put a watering trough in front of his grave," said Rhena Schweitzer Eclcert, 47. "A sheep lambed on his grave, and we think he would have liked that." Whether the late Albert Schweitzer would like what his daughter has been trying to do with his notoriously primitive hospital at Lambaréné since the doctor died last September is another matter. "We have finished the electrification of the wards," she reported, on a rare trip to New York, adding that a refuse-disposal system has replaced the garbage barrels that the goats used...
Washington's Dilemma. The advocates of a tax rise last week picked up such prominent recruits as Walter Heller, former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers; Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, chief of the International Monetary Fund; and most important, William McChesney Martin...
Subsequently, he became vice chancellor of the University of Ghana, but ultimately resigned that post too, over policy differences with the Ghanaian government. Now he holds the Albert Schweitzer chair in Humanities at N.Y.U., and lives in Washington Square Village, a multicolored concoction which towers over New York's Third Street. Now, also, he can speak freely about the U.N.'s adventure in the Congo, about the aims and means of the Ghanaian government, and about anything that should happen to come...
...historical problem of the life of Jesus, as tackled by scholars from David Friedrich Strauss in 1835 to Albert Schweitzer and De-Mythologizer Rudolf Bultmann, is that the evidence for the empty tomb and the Resurrection comes from divergent Gospel accounts. Bultmann asserted that the Resurrection is not a historical event and is "nothing other than faith in the cross as the salvation event." Schweitzer rejected both the empty tomb and the Resurrection as legendary, stressing that they were unnecessary to the truths proclaimed by Jesus in his teachings. Schonfield claims that as a Jew he has no need...
...write: "No man of dignity can shrink from war if he is to preserve his freedom." Quite a few men have done just that: Jesus, Buddha, Francis of Assisi, William Penn, Gandhi and Schweitzer, to name the more illustrious...