Word: macedonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Persian Wives. A century after the great Atheno-Peloponnesian War (431 B.C. to 404 B.C.) all but destroyed the city-state, Macedonia's Alexander steered Hellenism off on another tack. Under the tutelage of Aristotle, he envisioned the brotherhood of man in a single universal state to which, in Toynbee's view, the earlier Hellenes had been so suicidally blind. In carving out his empire, he directed 80 of his highest-ranking officers to marry Persian women. But the experiment in marital one-worldism was shortlived. The Hellenic world continued to writhe in violent separatist agonies until Rome...
...what the Communists were doing to Bulgaria, could see no future ahead for his three sons, and thought of fleeing to Australia or America. As a Macedonian, it was easy enough for him to get a pass to visit his sister in her village across the border in Yugoslav Macedonia, but how would he get out of Communist Yugoslavia into the freedom of Greece? Ivanov decided to make over his Chrysler into a homemade armor-plated tank...
...first publisher whose office he passes." Knopf scoffs at overstimulated advertising ("Never has a book offered so much") and fraudulent announcements of "12 superb new novels" in a single season An offender not mentioned: Publisher Knopf, who decorated the book jacket of Come with Me to Macedonia (TIME, Aug. 26), one of the most forlorn comic novels of the season, with this endorsement: "I cannot remember when I have laughed so much over a novel...
...group troup took the Experimenters and some of their Yugoslav hosts through Macedonia to Lake Chrid, a resort area on the Albanian border; then along the Dalmatian coast on the Adriatic to Dubrounik...
COME WITH ME TO MACEDONIA (344 pp.)-Leonard Drohan-Knopf...