Word: wouk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure how it would be received. Buffett's success came with a devil's bargain: he would be a cartoonish entertainer, not an introspective balladeer. Among his better recent work is a musical based on Herman Wouk's Caribbean novel, Don't Stop the Carnival, but the show never made it to Broadway. And though his concerts deliver moments of beauty and power--a song called One Particular Harbor gets people dancing but with tears in their eyes--they also deliver mindless ditties like Cheeseburger in Paradise. "The set I'd like to do is all ballads," he says over...
...stay at home and suffocate children with well-meaning dictums and chicken soup, while wives and daughters had the leisure to morph into superficial, whiny consumers. At least, that was how the situation was presented by Jewish male writers and artists, Davidson noted. The scholar counts Phillip Roth, Herman Wouk and later Woody Allen and Jerry Seinfeld, among those who introduced and popularized such stereotypes concerning Jewish women in American culture...
Consider the historical novels of James Michener, Gore Vidal and Hermann Wouk, or films such as Glory, about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War, and Oliver Stone's JFK. All of these works carry political messages, as do many academic works of history. But these messages are intimately bound to their historical vehicle. Glory, for example, could only work with its Civil War setting. Likewise, JFK, as outlandish as its interpretation of the Kennedy assassination may be, nevertheless attempts to participate in the historical dialogue and inquiry, through an unorthodox, non-academic medium...
...author's new book destroys itself before the reader's eyes, as a fascinating popular history battles without success to free itself from a fat, tedious novel. What is interesting here -- Wouk is right about this -- is the improbable succession of bluffs and heroics by which the new and perilously weak Jewish state managed to defend itself. But the writer, now 78, chooses to deal with Israel's wars, and the confounding historical intricacies that shaped them, on a level that allows only slightly more subtlety than a grade- school Thanksgiving pageant...
Another doorstop-size novel from Herman Wouk...