Word: grunwald
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...Nobody plays the cello like Lance Morrow," our former managing editor Henry Grunwald once remarked, and he wasn't talking about music. He was, instead, referring to the sonority and depth of tone in Morrow's prose. This week Morrow shows his virtuosic stamina by writing a second cover story in a row. His examination of the ethical dilemma over human transplants follows his exploration of evil last week. After finishing that piece late at night, Lance came perilously close to the subject matter of his story. He was bicycling home through Manhattan's Central Park. "I've taken...
Michael R. Grunwald '92, editorial chair of The Crimson, swears he was nowhere near Dallas on November...
...Lisa Grunwald...
...second work of fiction (the first was Summer, in 1986), Lisa Grunwald displays her own gifts of unification. Alexander's obsession with the quartet of forces that influence every particle is counterbalanced by an enchantment with the four elements of alchemy: water, earth, air and fire. And his search for the ultimate strands of matter vie with a desire to find the basic truths of metaphysics...
...triumph? Or is a victory really necessary? Are the two arenas of knowledge irreconcilable? Or are they different entrances to the same estate? Such questions have intrigued scientists ever since Plato first observed that "astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another." Grunwald offers no final answers, but her chart of genius in extremis is witty and sympathetic. In The Theory of Everything, Alexander has come up with an extraordinary insight. His creator has kept pace. She has produced that rarest of all items in the VCR age: an authentic philosophical novel...