Word: cheerless
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...humbled, and the cruelty with which this was done was so efficient that 20 years later the blackballing was still the most important emotional event of his life, far weightier than marriage, fatherhood or success in the writing dodge. Or so the author tries to convince us, in glum, cheerless chapters. An ending in which Clay's daughter also comes to grief at Princeton is mawkish and clumsy...
Only 120 miles north of Seoul lies another world. There, from a drab, cheerless capital, the self-proclaimed "Great Leader" Kim Il Sung presides over an Orwellian state where the radios have dials that cannot be tuned and loudspeakers broadcast propaganda 20 hours a day into every home. Such totalitarianism is fast becoming extinct everywhere else in the world, but Kim not only survives, he is virtually worshiped by his people...