Word: morningstar
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Dates: during 1985-1985
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...from the fiction of alienation. By the end of World War II, the sons and daughters of ghetto immigrants were well on their way to becoming deeply rooted members of the middle class. Their semiofficial arrival can be dated to 1955. That was the year Herman Wouk published Marjorie Morningstar, the best seller about a prodigal daughter who ends up a proper suburban matron...
...took Marjorie Morningstar some 400 pages to lose her virginity. Davey Goodkind needs 500 and a chapter titled "Consummation." There is a touch of self-mockery in this, though Goodkind's long-windedness leaves little doubt of his underlying self-importance. He appears modest about his role in Government but leaves the impression that he was decisive in securing U.S. aid for Israel during the October War. His on-again-off-again affair with a Gentile show girl is elevated to a grand romantic passion when all the evidence suggests that our hero was merely having a good time before...