Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus last week, in typical fashion, the U.S. welcomed one of the most extraordinary men of modern times. Albert Schweitzer, medical missionary, theologian, organist, interpreter of Bach's music, and one of the world's great humanitarians, has a life of achievement behind him which few contemporary men can equal. Throughout the civilized world he is also quietly honored as few are honored in their lifetime-for what...
...Turned His Back. Next day the U.S. press told its readers the story of Albert Schweitzer. As an organist he once played before jammed audiences in churches and concert halls of Europe; his recordings are still ranked at the top of their field. He is a musicologist whose edition of Bach's organ works is a standard text; his biography of Bach has never been surpassed. He is a doctor of medicine whose 36 years of selfless pioneering as a missionary to the natives of French Equatorial Africa are a bright highlight in the relations between the white race...
...when Evangelical Pastor Louis Schweitzer moved to the little Alsatian village of Giinsbach with his frail-looking six-month-old son Albert, the townspeople said: "Das Bueble isch die erschte Beer-digung wo der neue Pfarrer halte wird [That kid's going to be the new parson's first funeral]." The parson's wife decked out her yellow, pinch-faced baby in a white frock and colored ribbons for his father's induction ceremony. But even so, the visitors could manage no compliments for the baby, and Frau Pfarrer Schweitzer fled weeping to her bedroom with...
...neighbors soon stopped worrying about young Albert Schweitzer, who began to grow up as straight and strong as an Alsatian pine. But his mother still had cause to weep-over his report cards. The first-rate education to which he was entitled as a parson's son, and the grandson of a minister and a schoolmaster, seemed at first to be a dubious investment. At home, Albert's brothers & sisters called him "the dreamer." At school, reading and writing came hard to him, and his nervous giggle earned him the nickname of Isaac (in Hebrew, "He laughs...
...Things That Breathe. Albert felt a sense of deep obligation to those who were not as well off as he. One day, when he won a friendly wrestling match with a bigger schoolmate, the loser complained: "Yes, if I got broth to eat twice a week the way you do, I'd be as strong as you are." From that time on, Albert's broth stuck in his throat. He was punished repeatedly because he refused to accept such advantages as an everyday overcoat, new gloves, or leather shoes, which poorer boys did not have...