Word: cal
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...With ‘Middlesex,’ I was writing about a character who was very different from me,” he said. The main character, Cal, has a genetic mutation and is intersex. “I had to find connections to my own life to make him seem credible so I invested Cal with details about me—he grew up in Detroit where I grew up and was born the year I was born. I needed an autobiographical ground to build this fictional narrative...
While Eugenides’ characters in successive novels remain in youth—from boys dealing with a town tragedy in “The Virgin Suicides,” to Cal coming of age in the flux of 20th century America, and to college students studying semantic theory while carrying on a passionate affair on the side—he continues to be surprised about how much can remember from his own recent past...
What happened? "She misread the voters and the ground shifted under her feet," says Cal Jillson, a political science professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. In a recent New York Times story, the Senator mused that she had been hoping the "November Republicans" - a reference to the moderates she has relied on for support in the past in a state with no party registration - would turn out and vote in the primary. But her campaign appears to have misjudged the tectonic political shifts of the past year...