Herman Wouk, novelist and dramatist, has written twelve novels and four plays. Though the critical response to his works varies as much as the subject matter, at least eight of the novels were bestsellers and two of his plays were popular and critical su...
The Winds of War was best-selling novellist Herman Wouk's second book about World War II, the first being The Caine Mutiny (1951). Published in 1971, it was followed up seven years later by War and Remembrance. Originally conceived as one volume, Wouk...
VIEWPOINT There is so much going on in the world today it's just plain hard to keep up with it all. Unfortunately, most of it is seems to be bad. And yet, these are the times in which we live and we must...
BY GOING to war in Afghanistan, America has tumbled into two complex, many-sided conflicts that resemble a pair of concentric circles. One is the ever-shifting civil war that Afghans have known for at least the last quarter century. No less treacherous for the distant...
"Sneaky" Pete Kleinow, a steel guitar prodigy who rose to fame as one of the original members of the Flying Burrito Brothers, has died. He was 72.Kleinow, who also worked in film as an award-winning animator and special effects artist, died Saturday at a Petaluma...
Ennio Morricone, who has been performing for some six decades and is heading to Hollywood to pick up a long-awaited Academy Award, finally made his conducting debut on the shores of the United States.The night before his first official U.S. concert at Radio City, the...
