Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

He won the 1981 National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism and was a finalist for the same award in 1991. His father Hugh Morrow was a chief aide to Nelson Rockefeller.

He won the 1981 National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism and was a finalist for the same award in 1991. He is a former professor of journalism and Fellow of the University Professors at Boston University.