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DIED. HENRY A. GRUNWALD, 82, former managing editor of TIME, editor-in-chief of all Time Inc. publications and U.S. ambassador to Austria from 1988-90; in New York City. (See page...
...typical of Henry Grunwald's unyielding honesty and his precise mind that he disapproved of using the words "passed away" to refer to someone who has died. So I will honor him in reporting what is sad news in the unequivocal language he would have insisted upon. Henry Anatole Grunwald, one of the most distinguished managing editors in TIME's history and for decades a pre-eminent figure in American journalism, died last week. He was 82 and in his later years had faced a number of difficulties, which, being Henry, he treated as opportunities. Last year he suffered...
...What I loved about Henry was his intelligence, his immediate grasp of all dimensions of the subject," says Lance Morrow, a writer Grunwald cultivated at TIME. "He improved stories by suggesting 10 new things you had not thought of." The range of his mind was legendary. As a young man, he would recite to his dates from T.S. Eliot. While rising at TIME, he managed to edit a compendium of critical writings about the author J.D. Salinger and another called Sex in America. One of our cherished legends about Henry describes his being told that a writer's cover story...
...could preach fluently, predict the future and travel, she claimed, from Paris to Tours and back by angel power. But were her gifts from God, the devil or her own vivid imagination? Grunwald, a former editor-in-chief of Time Inc., is less interested in theology and is-she-or-isn't-she games than in the subtle psychology and sociology of faith and its obverse, doubt: what makes people believe, what makes people want to believe and what makes belief fail. To this end he surrounds Nicole with a bestiary of believers who try to come to terms with...
...Grunwald writes with an obvious tenderness toward his heroine--in an introductory note, he discusses his decades-long obsession with her--but that doesn't stop him from treating her roughly, and her tale is in the end bittersweet at best. He delivers it in a bluff, plainspoken style; one flaw in the telling is that the dialogue has a touch of that musty quality that often inhabits historical fiction. Yet Grunwald has a strong sense of his historical period--he genuinely intuits the mirror logic of the Renaissance religious mind--and his story has an emotional power that transcends...