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...wife and an old-fashioned gold watch with Roman numerals and a heavy lid. For five years the watch has lain open on the desk while its owner listened to its ticking and wrote steadily, using the same aging desk pen and yellow lined pads. Says Herman Wouk (pronounced woke...
...reported in to my boss, the desk, five or day." six Out days of a this week, at unflinching least six writing hours a stint came some of the U.S.'s most success ful fiction. Wouk's total output to date...
Last week the gold watch (brought to the U.S. from Russia 27 years ago by Novelist Wouk's grandfather) was shut and resting in the desk drawer. Novelist Wouk was taking his first vacation in nearly a decade from the job of writing - "the loneliest job in the world." Wouk, a tall, darkly handsome man of 40, was relaxing at his ocean-front home on New York's Fire Island, trying to fix a 30-year-old reading lamp, lolling on the sand, teaching his five-year-old son how to float...
...therapeutic technique of psychodrama (TIME, Jan. 24), patients act out their own experiences or roles related to them; in presenting Herman Wouk's Court Martial, the patients did the opposite: they had to adapt themselves, like any actors, to prefabricated roles. Remarkable was the fact that they chose the play themselves, without prompting from the hospital's recreation staff, and assigned most of the parts...
...voices, in the richest words at their command. And Billy Budd's themes, often thought to be peculiarly modern-the individual and the state, innocence and authority-are far better expressed in the moral, oratorical, Biblical jargon of Melville than in the journeyman prose of Herman Wouk...