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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 the route so many times in daylight
- I know it by heart," he says, "and I lined my bike up perfectly
- to shoot through an unlit passage." Perhaps the devil had been
- at work after all. A well-remembered curb had mysteriously moved
- several feet, and Morrow did a front flip into the air. He
- walked the rest of the way home, carrying his smashed bike, in
- pitch darkness.
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- In his 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.
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- The son of two 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
- or stupid." He helps TIME tell the difference, and that means
- a lot to us.
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- We're buying him a light for his bicycle.
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- -- Robert L. Miller
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