Word: disillusioners
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Such towering works as Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath earned him a Nobel Prize in 1962. But the honor did not bring a revival. Steinbeck declined into illness and disillusion. Kiernan reports that when the author died at 66, in 1968, he "had grudgingly accepted the...
IT KEPT rolling, on and on, like a juggernaut out of control. Traumas and ecstasies and illusion and disillusion, friends and lost friends, and then I heard someone call it "an emotional roller-coaster." While the most certain and directed subjects approached the maze with unswerving confidence and determination, others...
But some of Esquire's best years were the 1960s, when its editors' carefree irreverence suited the disillusion and cynicism of the times. The magazine's New Journalism brought the techniques of the novelist to matters of fact-profiles were not concentrates of fact gathering but freewheeling...
In any event, the latest Prize Stories rely heavily on a familiar tone of disillusion. The man whose business fails and wife leaves him, the writer whose wife runs off with a Terry-Thomas Englishman, the couple who discover they enjoy sex more after their divorce, have all passed this...
Through Kerouac's friends, we are shown a troubled man full of ironies and disillusion. But the "Father of the Beats," despite new and radical ideas of how prose should be written, was an exceedingly kind man, and one who firmly believed in things like religion and America. This comes...