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Grunwald, Henry Anatole

Born: 1922 AD
Died: 2005 AD, at 83 years of age.

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US (Austrian-born) diplomat and journalist

 

immigrated to US 1940 (naturalized US citizen 1948)

 

managing editor of "Time" magazine 1968-1977

 

editor-in-chief of "Time" magazine 1979-1987

 

US ambassador to Austria 1988-1990


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  • "Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures."
  • "Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter."
  • "Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe."