In his two previous books, "Beware of God," a collection of wickedly funny if not just plain wicked stories, and "Foreskin's Lament," a memoir that torched the bridges to his strict Orthodox heritage, he's been relentlessly indicting the Hebrew God as a poor role model.
Manfred's life has pretty much followed a straight and narrow path of school and work and country, something he attributes, in large part, to his parents' adherence to their strict German heritage.
But he might have done so, had the opportunity arisen: he had an eye for an invention.Mellon's belief in free enterprise, self-reliance and the virtues of inequality owed much to the combination of his strict Presbyterian Ulster heritage and his powerful father, Thomas "the Judge" Mellon.
Being in Playboy in the early '70s would have damaged my saleability to the valuable advertisers and would have made a deep wound in my strict Pennsylvania Deutsch puritanical heritage.
But for the curators, it's a way of arguing that Italy's art treasures would be vastly diminished were it not for its strict — some assert, draconian — cultural-heritage laws.
Lane has always been a beautifully developed character who had to navigate vastly different worlds--her Korean heritage, her mother's strict religious beliefs, and her love for rock and roll.
People are expected to wear traditional clothes for office and public functions, and strict rules protect its environment, architecture and heritage.
Torn between two dads — one rich and magnanimous, the other servile and smotheringly strict — poor Bo is as ignorant of his heritage as of Chen's plan to use him as his avenger.
Experts say Isis applies its theory of "shirk", or idolatry, not just to other religions and pre-Islamic sites but also to Islamic heritage which doesn't follow its strict Sunni interpretation of Islam.
