Word: wouk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caine Mutiny Court Martial isn't a bad play as commercial drama goes. Herman Wouk's study of the decay of a loyal petty tyrant, concluding with an elegy for devoted though unenlightened service has considerable vigor. Adapted from the novel, the script assumes much of the background of the novel, and as script leaves something to be desired in development of the characters...
...title role in Marjorie Morningstar. As the season's best-plugged heroine hunt progressed, Hollywood jungle drums boomed Carroll (Baby Doll) Baker, Jean Simmons, Elizabeth Taylor and the Old Vic's Claire Bloom for the part. A likely long shot, according to one tub thumper, for Herman Wouk's bagel-belt heroine: Steve Allen's sometime girl singer, Irish-descended Erin O'Brien...
...have enough to write about without digging up her own private garden. For me, it was just a routine relationship, and she's blown it up." Of the present "pretty bad" state of U.S. fiction, as exemplified by the "elevation" of Marjorie Morningstar, the bestseller by Herman Wouk, to its high acclaim as top-notch literature: "I have nothing against Mr. Wouk. It's simply the matter of him being built up because he shows respect to so-called hallowed institutions . . . Good novelists better leave the hallowing of sacred institutions to people who get paid to hallow them...
TIME is the poor schnook for tripping on the curbstones of Central Park West; such matters are better left in the hands of Herman Wouk...
Food disciplines are part of every great religion. Psychologically they are almost inevitable, and extremely practical . . . Didn't you feel more . . . at home in the world, warm, safe, good, while yon were observing your laws? -Herman Wouk in Marjorie Morningstar...