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There is about Gropius himself a certain serenity these days. "My reputation," he says with frankness but not vanity, "has penetrated through. Now these things come to me." Next month the city of Frankfurt will award him its coveted Goethe Prize, which it has given to Thomas Mann, Albert Schweitzer and Sigmund Freud. Next fall the Duke of Edinburgh will present Gropius with the gold medal of Britain's Royal Society of Arts. Will Gropius have time next month to attend the formal opening of the embassy in Athens? "No. I don't think I can make...
...business as "the apostle to the adolescents," has a face as wholesome as a glass of milk, though perhaps not quite so interesting. He does not smoke, drink or swear. Some people also say he does not sing, but then some people don't like the way Albert Schweitzer plays the organ. Certainly he does not act, but perhaps that is expecting too much of a lad who is only 26, and who, as he shyly confesses, was spanked by his mother (with a sewing-machine belt) until...
...enough money in all America to relieve the misery of the underdeveloped world in a giant and endless soup kitchen. But there is enough know-how and enough knowledgeable people to help those nations help themselves." Skeptics at once envisioned ponytailed coeds and crew-cut Jack Armstrongs playing Albert Schweitzer-an appalling army of innocents abroad. Nonetheless, Kennedy was flooded with enthusiastic letters. In a Gallup poll, 71% of Americans backed the corps; 66% wanted their sons to join...
Parkinson is a man more grotesquely awful than the lepers, given to misquoting tag lines from the great English anthology poets, and he is dead set on making Querry into another Albert Schweitzer, a sacred cow sanctified by journalism. With facts dug up from the newspaper morgue, involving the suicide of Querry's mistress, the correspondent is determined that his own Parkinson's Law ("A truth is a truth insofar as it is believed") will override the private legislation in Querry's dead soul...
...very much moved by your Oct. 31 story of Mark Higgins and his death in the Congo. He did a brave and wonderful thing in refusing to accept the "set pattern" by choosing to work in Africa with Missionary Albert Schweitzer...