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...holds with great conviction that they must not come at the expense of the Endangered Species Act. EAC urges readers of The Crimson to participate in a petition drive to be held next week in the dining halls urging Harvard to put its observatory some-where else. Peter Morningstar '91-92 Environmental Action Committee Phillips Brooks House
...from the fiction of alienation. By the end of World War II, the sons and daughters of ghetto immigrants were well on their way to becoming deeply rooted members of the middle class. Their semiofficial arrival can be dated to 1955. That was the year Herman Wouk published Marjorie Morningstar, the best seller about a prodigal daughter who ends up a proper suburban matron...
...took Marjorie Morningstar some 400 pages to lose her virginity. Davey Goodkind needs 500 and a chapter titled "Consummation." There is a touch of self-mockery in this, though Goodkind's long-windedness leaves little doubt of his underlying self-importance. He appears modest about his role in Government but leaves the impression that he was decisive in securing U.S. aid for Israel during the October War. His on-again-off-again affair with a Gentile show girl is elevated to a grand romantic passion when all the evidence suggests that our hero was merely having a good time before...
Script B: the classic Jewish novel, right down to the big wedding scene. Like most 20th century heroes, Benny is allowed to be epic only in bed. Alas, he picks a kind of Marjorie Morningstar...
...with the single Hebrew word zachor (remember). Cynics might have been forgiven for thinking that with The Caine Mutiny Wouk had already written his World War II novel and moved on more or less permanently to such subjects as the plight of the Jewish princess defending her virtue (Marjorie Morningstar), or creeping decadence in the Caribbean (Don't Stop the Carnival). Not so. A thoughtful man, an Orthodox Jew and a methodical, ambitious writer, Wouk has just poured some seven years of his life into The Winds of War and its yet to be completed sequel. His aim: nothing...