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...enormous enigma of Johann Wolfgang Goethe has bewildered and fascinated two centuries of Western culture. In Germany he is worshiped as a demi-divinity; Albert Schweitzer, for instance, modeled much of his life on Goethe's. Yet in the English-speaking world his works are very little read. The Goethe of transatlantic reputation is the plaster Zeus of Weimar who thundered at secretaries and toadied to princes ("Blessed are those who draw near to the great of this world!"). Of his works, only Faust is famous, largely because Charles Gounod made grand opera of it, and only...
...Schweitzer clearly intended Lambarene to be his monument, and just before he died happily supervised the completion of a new ward. But soon after his burial, Schweitzer's daughter, Rhena Eckert, as much as admitted that the hospital might have a hard time surviving. "We will try to carry on his work," she told reporters, "but Lambarene as a spiritual center is irrevocably gone." In time, the Gabonese villagers may come to prefer the gleaming white government hospital a mile up the river. But Lambarene, and the world, will always have the memory of a giant who tried...
...toward the light." But after 102 episodes, there has been little perceptible evolution. Last week's three chapters, for instance, interwove the multiple subplots without even a glimmer of psychic peace or a fleeting, joyous guffaw. Dr. Vincent Markham, back home after winning "international renown as the Albert Schweitzer of the Andes," was, it turned out, on the brink of divorce because he could not relate to women, and on the road to suicide because of sibling rivalry with a twin brother. The town's most dynamic executive, David Schuster, was feeling trapped at the office...
...this wittily ironic memoir, Lenard blithely confesses that all the rumors are true. Unlike most memoirists, he is crisply cryptic about his own improbable early life. But with delight and charm, he descants on life in his adopted home in Southern Brazil. If he seems to resemble Albert Schweitzer as an intellectual refugee buried in a jungle, the resemblance is superficial: Schweitzer is devout and ascetic, Lenard is an agnostic and a humanist; Schweitzer is a crusader, Lenard works...
...which arranges short-term credits for central banks. The central bankers make a three-day weekend of it, gathering two days ahead of the BIS meeting for a round of closed-door talks to inform and advise each other on monetary problems and plans. IMF Managing Director Pierre-Paul Schweitzer calls the exclusive group the "best club in the world." Meetings: once a month in Basel...