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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...
Luckily, or frighteningly, this seems to be a national phenomenon, not a Harvard-specific one. A professor recently quoted an October 13, 1993 article in the Boston Globe, still disconcertedly timely, in which Michael Grunwald christened this trend the Gapification of America. (Ironically enough, not only did most of the people in the class look the part, but two women were wearing nearly identical Gap flannel shirts over their light blue jeans). In this ultimate triumph of Gap culture," Grunwald writes, we are players in and spectators of the "commercial homogenization of the middle classes...
...Grunwald continues: "The Gap...makes us blend into a crowd of casual, comfortable clothing." In a metaphor that is almost poetic, Grun-wald explains: With the pocket t-shirts and cotton turtlenecks grouped into small, medium, large and extra large, "the Gap fits everybody. It provides the sartorial equivalent of the Big Tent, welcoming America's diverse multitude of grossly misshapen bodies into the comforting embrace of its loose fitting" sweaters...
...again in Helms' successful 1990 race against Charlotte's black mayor, Harvey Gantt, creating the controversial ad in which a pair of white hands are shown crumpling a pink slip as a narrator puts the onus on racial quotas. "The ads were race baiting and untrue," said Mandy Grunwald, Gantt's media adviser. "Alex has a crisp, clear way of going for the jugular." Castellanos believes in finding what he calls "the truest thing you can say about someone. If you find the truest nugget, it will resonate." But Castellanos knows how hard Dole can be to please. He worked...