Word: wouk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This Is My God, Wouk...
This Is My God, by Herman Wouk. The author, an Orthodox Jew and a bestselling novelist (Marjorie Morningstar), provides a clear, simple guide to his faith...
This Is My God, by Herman Wouk. The bestselling novelist (Caine Mutiny) presents a simple, admirably clear guide to Judaism...
...Wouk is sure that the answer to both questions is no. and that the only hope lies in training the best brains among the young in the law. And this to him means Orthodoxy. "If I stand up to be counted in that communion, it is not because I hold it perfect, or because I miss the stresses that have sent many into dissent and assimilation. It is because I sense in my bones that Jewish survival rests with the law . . . The formulas of dissent make a pleasant compromise for people who want an easier life than the law asks...
...Half Moon Country Club -one of the summer camps for manhunting secretaries and girl-hunting clerks in which young Moss served six miserable years as "social director" and resident clown. The sleepless grind of "making fun" for the guests-an occupation also survived by Danny Kaye, Gene Kelly, Herman Wouk and dozens of others-consisted of reciting Shakespeare by the campfire, impersonating Fanny Brice, staging a full-length musical each week, supervising endless Spanish Fiestas and Greenwich Village Frolics. Mr. Axeler's establishment in Vermont was really more a concentration than a summer camp, with the red-shirted boss...