Word: gibraltarism
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...VISION OF BATTLEMENTS, by Anthony Burgess. This wry account of a young Briton's jousts with the military bullies and oafs stationed on Gibraltar during and after World War II shines like a Faberge bauble when compared with the usual assortment of wartime reminiscences...
...VISION OF BATTLEMENTS, by Anthony Burgess. This wry account of a hapless young Briton's jousts with the military bullies and oafs stationed on Gibraltar during and after World War II shines like a Faberge bauble when compared with the usual assortment of wartime fictional reminiscences...
...Burgess' comic imagination is worthy of his later (1963) Orwellian Clockwork Orange. A Vision unfolds the misadventures of a mild-mannered sergeant in the British Army Vocational and Cultural Corps who muddles through World War II in the incongruous bastion of imperial Britannia atop the rock of Gibraltar...
...amiss if I point out, however, that during my tour of duty the Spanish Government never indicated to me that it desired to belong to NATO. Indeed, Foreign Minister Castiella specifically made this quite clear to me. He made it clear again the other day in a statement on Gibraltar...
...incompetence of his superiors ("generals with no more brains or backbone than a bran doll"), he angrily determined to "put matters right." He was well equipped for it. At 48, Allenby was a huge and powerful man with a chest like the hump of Africa and a head like Gibraltar, not to mention a tongue that could flay a rhinoceros. When "the Bull" saw red, battle-hardened officers sometimes fainted dead away...