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...story was written by Senior Writer Lance Morrow, whose distinctive TIME Essays have attracted something of a following among readers. Columnist William F. Buckley has described Morrow's style as a blend of "pyrotechnics and lyricism." Says Senior Editor Otto Friedrich, who edited this week's story...
...past four years, Morrow has been a principal writer of the TIME Essay, which he calls "a combination of editorial, crank letter and private meditation." A onetime U.S. Senate page and Harvard English major, he came to the magazine in 1965 from the Washington Star. He has a bit of family history on his office wall: an old photo of Great-Grandfather Albert Morrow, a 19th century U.S. Cavalry officer. The younger Morrow's meditation on the rediscovery of America appears in the Nation section, but he brings to the subject the same subtlety, wit and fascination with...
...Morrow was assisted by Reporter-Researcher Peggy Berman, who dug into more than 60 history books to find out how the U.S. has been portrayed to generations of American students. The subject is not foreign to her. Though a science major at Smith College, she spent part of her student days reading history and attending lectures on the subject. "I think I have always been drawn to history for the same reason I majored in biological sciences," she says. "Both subjects tie people into the infinitely longer scheme of life. When you integrate all the pieces, that...
...that Madagascar, about 700 miles away, has an estimated 10 billion bbl. of tar on its surface. Where tar is found, oil is usually not far away. On the other side of the Indian Ocean, India has reportedly found indications of an oil bonanza off its southeast coast. Michael Morrow, publisher of Hong Kong's Petroleum News, told TIME that "on the basis of preliminary drilling, Indian officials believe they have found the largest offshore oil basin anywhere in the world...
TIME's Essay "Guarding the Door" [June 2] dealt well with the issue of a continued welcome to immigrants until the last paragraph. There Lance Morrow suggested that the rational lines must be drawn as to whom we can accept...