Word: wouk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guide covers 12 broad areas of vocational opportunities, with articles written by men distinguished in the fields. President Pusey, novelist Herman Wouk, industrialist Harlow Curtice, and politician Harold Stassen are among the 39 prominent contributors...
...novel. It also gives 28-year-old Novelist R. Prawer Jhabvala, Polish wife of a Hindu architect and a resident of India for the past five years, her chance to fashion a deft comedy of manners and values. Allowing for an Indian sea change, her moral is essentially Herman Wouk's-that one's cultural heritage is not a vise but a virtue...
...once, some of the gravy was trickling down to the bookstores. The book clubs were booming, Hollywood was paying fancy prices for books again ($300,000 for Robert Ruark's Something of Value, $250,000 for MacKinlay Kantor's Andersonville, a $1,000,000 deal for Herman Wouk's Marjorie Morningstar). High-priced, quality paperbacks were having the year of their lives...
Marjorie Morningstar, by Herman Wouk, again, as in The Caine Mutiny, put its author on the side of unfashionable literary virtues-this time, character and middle-class morality. Told as a love story about a stage-struck New York girl, Marjorie quickly became the nation's favorite novel...
Whining Paranoiac. For its vast middle-brow audience, TV served up a go-minute helping of Herman Wouk's Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, with most of the same cast that has carried the show to big-money grosses on Broadway and on tour across the nation. Lloyd Nolan re-created his memorable Captain Queeg, depicting the collapse of a personality, in one shattering crossexamination, from a man-to-man blaster to a whining paranoiac. Captain Queeg's character is complex yet dramatically clear, but most of the other characters in Caine Mutiny must operate as intellectual phobias...