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Nature's Way (by Herman Wouk) is a loud farce, full of rib-nudging situations, about a young musicomedy composer and his wife. It opens forte, with the wife six months pregnant. It next reveals that the young couple are four months married. Then the composer's homosexual collaborator appears, to lure the husband to Venice as a better place to work. Among other callers in the expensive, brick-walled penthouse are a very modern and very muddled obstetrician, a very airy and very ruthless lady decorator. Eventually there is a second homosexual, and ultimately a batch...
...basic aims have not changed much since 1943, but they seem all the more vital today in a post-war America that seems content with Herman Wouk or Anne Morrow Lindbergh as culture, or will sit by quietly as it is told that nuclear radiation is a) dangerous, b) harmless, c) over its head, or d) none of its business...
...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...