Word: balkanize
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...print. One explanation is Bond's universal expertise. His man-of-the-worldsmanship is so explicit that his fans' fantasies have a rich and varied diet to feed on. His cigarettes, with their three distinctive gold rings (a considerable security risk), are blended for him of a Balkan tobacco mixture by Morlands of Grosvenor Street. For breakfast: "The single egg in the dark blue egg cup with a gold ring round the top was boiled for three and a third minutes . . . Then there were two slices of wholewheat toast, a large pat of deep yellow Jersey butter...
...five is now grown up) in a cottage on the coast of Wales near the village his longtime friend Dylan Thomas immortalized in Under Milkwood. When not writing, he has kept busy enough, bustling around the world. He was a friend of Moroccan Chieftain El Glaui, has hobnobbed with Balkan rebels, shipped on freighters, and he has been described as a "sea pirate come to land." In 1924, he wrote what is called Britain's first radio drama. Danger, for which he still gets royalties; he served a wartime stint with the British Admiralty, and then wrote a history...
Peeling Gumshoes. Elsewhere in Communist Europe, the once familiar busts and images have disappeared, but recent visitors to Albania, notably a group of German journalists, still find the old Stalin pictures-and the old Stalin touch-in a ramshackle Balkan setting. In the capital city of Tirana, wide Skanderbeg Square boasts three white-uniformed traffic cops on duty-but no traffic for them to direct. Heavily-armed police and soldiers stand guard before ministries and embassies, on street corners, in parks, in front of and behind hotels. Other guards, toting machine guns, pace before the residences of top Red officials...
Died. G. (for George) Ward Price, 75, intrepid London Daily Mail correspondent who covered every European conflict from the Balkan War of 1912 through World War II, scored a succession of 1930s scoops as a Hitler confidant and apologist ("Behind the forceful character which Hitler displays in public, there is a pleasant personality known only to his intimates"); after a long illness; in London...
...second book, Homage to Blenholt, the least successful of the trio, is a bitter comedy around the funeral of Blenholt, the Commissioner of Sewers, whom young Max Balkan reveres as a man who made good. Max is an idling dreamer full of fast-buck schemes, who meets the disaster expected by everyone but himself. Some of the family scenes sound like Arthur Kober's My Dear Bella rewritten by Nathaniel West, but all of the novel that is likely to remain with the reader is the figure of Max Balkan's father, the extragedian of the Yiddish theater...