Word: disillusional
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As the larger South African drama deflated, Coetzee seemed to turn to his private life for inspiration. His son died in a mysterious fall; he wrote The Master of Petersburg, a novel about a father similarly stricken. His ex-wife died of cancer, and he produced Age of Iron, a...
J.M. Coetzee almost never gives interviews, so I counted myself very lucky when he granted me an audience in the early 1990s. We met in his office in Cape Town, the great novelist a pale and austere presence in his tweeds and corduroys, and I under strict instructions from his...
Gentlemen: I must confess serious doubts about the efficacy—or even the integrity—of the “classic” exam period editorial, “Beating the System,” you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called “Donald...
Many of the nation's dreams seemed to go off course in Dallas on the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963, when Kennedy was shot. Then much of the country's bold optimism soured as Americans watched the war in Vietnam spin out of control on the news. When Ho's...
SOMETHING LIKE THE REAL THING It was a revelation that may hearten his insurance company but disillusion his fans: action star JACKIE CHAN, 48, the martial-arts expert from Hong Kong long known for personally executing all manner of hazardous maneuvers on film, admitted that he has started using a...