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Intrigued by Milton Horowitz's A Discouraging Word [OBITER DICTA, XXII, 1, 13], I set about tracking the word balagan along its etymological course back from the modern Hebrew into which, according to Milton Horowitz quoting Herman Wouk, the word was borrowed from Russian.
According to Wouk's footnote, as quoted by Mr. Horowitz, in modern Hebrew balagan has come to mean mess, foul-up, snafu, fiasco.
But then, Herman Wouk didn't write his classic coming-of-age novel on the basis of female teen-age focus groups.
Last week, I started a book, The Hope, by Herman Wouk.