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Created to complement Professor of German Peter J. Burgard’s core course, Literature and Arts C-65, “Repression and Expression: Literature and Art in Fin-de-Siècle Germany and Austria,” the exposition masterfully interweaves visual art and texts read in the course...
DIED. HENRY A. GRUNWALD, 82, former managing editor of TIME, editor-in-chief of all Time Inc. publications and U.S. ambassador to Austria from 1988-90; in New York City. (See page...
...have been his greatest advantage as an editor that he was an insider (he counted as friends everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Henry Kissinger) who began as an outsider. Henry arrived in the U.S. in 1938 with his parents, Jewish refugees from Hitler's Anschluss of their native Austria. He would write about it much later in his memoir, One Man's America. "I love America," he wrote, "because it took me in from the madness of wartime Europe and allowed me to make it my country." Love was the key word. All his life, he approached America with...
Henry graduated to editor-in-chief of Time Inc. in 1979, supervising the editorial content of all our publications, including FORTUNE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, PEOPLE and MONEY. And after that? He was not the type to languish in retirement. In 1988 Ronald Reagan made him U.S. ambassador to Austria, allowing Henry to return in glory to the nation he had fled. His first task was to communicate Washington's displeasure with Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, a Nazi collaborator during...
...heard it all over Europe…I spent the fall there…Israel, Italy, Germany, Austria, Spain, in clubs. It was kind of like “Hey Ya!” last year…Everyone would kind of go crazy…[But] I don’t think Romanian pop is going to take off… I think it would only be [this song...