Word: grunwald
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...Sally Farber, the protagonist of Lisa Grunwald's novel Whatever Makes You Happy (Random House; 238 pages), notes, quarrels about what anger means, or sadness, or envy. "But happiness is-it's-a shimmer." Farber, 40, has had no trouble writing books on The History of Anger, The History of Jealousy and even The History of Love, but she's hung up on writing the biography of happiness. Two kids running into the bedroom "like bright, sharp arrows," a "tidy, perfect, kitchen drawer" of a husband plus a book contract, and still, for Sally, happiness lies around the corner...
...tale of a woman approaching middle age who doesn't know exactly what she wants (because she secretly knows that what she wants is irresponsibility) sounds like familiar stuff. But Grunwald tells the story with a wit-a bride wears an "expression of tranquilized charm"-that never quite conceals the sting of wisdom just below. Perhaps it's no surprise that by the end of her well-turned and winning tale, we see and feel, as Farber does, that the pursuit of happiness is really nothing more than a recipe for misery. -By Pico Iyer
...vigorous in a dark gray Mao suit, appeared in the east wing of Peking's Great Hall of the People to greet 60 U.S. business leaders and Time Inc. journalists traveling through Asia on a TlME-sponsored news tour. The group was led by Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, Corporate Editor Ray Cave and Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan. In the past seven years, Deng, who was once sent into internal exile as a "capitalist-roader," has introduced broad and dramatic economic reforms that have decentralized decision-making and placed more reliance on free-market forces. In mid-September...
...Essay, Henry Grunwald refers to Emma Lazarus' words "the wretched refuse of your teeming shore" on the Statue of Liberty as "awful" poetry. I think they are magnificent and moving. I bet millions of immigrants agree with me. Robert W. Driver Indian Rocks Beach...
...particularly enjoyed this issue because you reported the immigrants' failures as well as their triumphs. Henry Grunwald's touching Essay told everything that I have felt and experienced since my family and I arrived here 15 years ago: the fear, the uncertainty, the pain and the joy. You made me feel proud of being an immigrant and an American. Paquita A. Chinga New York City...