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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...
...years with TIME, Morrow has written about subjects ranging from pestilence to Presidents and from wars to the reason why men persist in wearing neckties. A colleague claims that Morrow uses the Socratic method. Says Lance: "It's more like the Lamaze method: a lot of huffing and subdued screams. When they start coming every 30 seconds or so, I deliver an essay." For his labors, he won a 1981 National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism and was a finalist a second time this spring...
...journalists, Morrow began writing for TIME two years after graduating with a degree in English from Harvard. "A magazine is a living thing," he says, "and it lives on ideas. It turns facts into ideas, entertainments, moral positions." But that doesn't mean a pre-eminent magazine journalist need be stuffy and serious. "To think that he's a no- nonsense guy is nonsense," says his colleague Paul Gray. "When suitably amused, he has an explosive laugh that could shudder a sycamore at 60 paces." Ideas, Morrow believes, are like people: "Some are charming, some are noble, some are ugly...
SENIOR WRITERS: Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Martha Duffy, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Robert Hughes, Eugene Linden, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Bruce W. Nelan, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, Frank Trippett...
SENIOR WRITERS: Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Martha Duffy, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Robert Hughes, Eugene Linden, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Bruce W. Nelan, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, Frank Trippett...