Word: grunwald
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When Henry Grunwald left Vienna in August 1938, he was a boy alone, carrying a single suitcase and fleeing the Nazis. When he returned in 1988, he was the ambassador of the United States of America, riding in a limousine with the Stars and Stripes fluttering from its fender. His first assignment was to register his adopted country's displeasure with the Nazi collaborator Kurt Waldheim, who had become his homeland's President...
...intervening years Grunwald, now 74, learned English, met Marilyn Monroe and scores of Presidents and Prime Ministers (in roughly that order of importance), became the editor of this magazine and then editor-in-chief of its parent company and thus one of the most powerful people in American journalism. His memoir, One Man's America (Doubleday; 658 pages; $30), is an often eloquent and emotional account of this astonishing passage, filled with the triumphs of a determined and intelligent man successfully navigating the strange waters of an adopted country. He is candid, as well, about his occasional failures...
...Grunwald grew up in America, he first learned to love his new country, and later, in fine journalistic tradition, to criticize it too. "I love America because it took me in as a young refugee from the madness of wartime Europe and allowed me to make it my country," he writes. "I love America because it did the same for millions of others from everywhere. I love it because it is an experiment in living and governing beyond anything dreamed of before. But I'm also disappointed by America because it seems in danger of bungling the experiment...
BOOKS . . . ONE MAN'S AMERICA: When Henry Grunwald left Vienna in August 1938, he was a boy alone, carrying a single suitcase and fleeing the Nazis. When he returned in 1988, he was the ambassador of the United States of America, riding in a limousine with the Stars and Stripes fluttering from its fender. In the intervening years Grunwald, now 74, learned English, met Marilyn Monroe and scores of Presidents and Prime Ministers (in roughly that order of importance), became the editor of TIME magazine and then editor-in-chief of its parent company and thus one of the most...
...many ways, we Harvardians fit Grunwald's description. The Independent survey of late last year found that Harvard is overwhelmingly middle and upper-middle, if not upper, class. We are disproportionately educated in private schools and grew up in or near major cities. And, although the Independent didn't check out this statistic, it is also true that most of us wear clothes from...