Word: blimpishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heading. He is troubled by the spreading middle-aged need to know, at least, where he has been. Yet his turning back to boyhood memories of India-and his personal trip out East during a long leave from his business-do not seem to be triggered by any Blimpish nostalgia for the good old days. In recollection, his early existence as the only son of the British adviser to a maharaja of the 19203 is outwardly pure pukka sahib, inwardly the struggle of a lonely boy to live up to what he thought was expected...
...Anyone? Back home, the Deputy Fon of Bafut got a Blimpish reception from the city fathers when he offered his adoptive town of Bournemouth a ready-made menagerie: "There had never been a zoo in the town ever since it had become a town, and so they did not see why there should be one now." For a year, Durrell almost literally had a zoo in his luggage. Then a 17th century mansion on the Channel island of Jersey was ceded to the animal kingdom...