Word: petar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slapped into jail in 1956 for his sizzling censures of the regime. There he has languished loquaciously for almost a decade, fearlessly issuing criticism, history and fiction about life in Yugoslavia (Conversations with Stalin, The New Class). This book, completed in 1959, is the first detailed biography of Petar II Petrović Njegoš, Prince-Bishop (from 1830 to 1851) of Djilas' native Montenegro, and Serbia's greatest poet. Njegoš is severely out of phase with Djilas' usually remarkable work, however. It is turgid in style and parochial in scope. Even in the U.S., where there...
Hoist with his own petar; and 't shall go hard...
Talk Dodger. In Hutovo, Yugoslavia, Petar Mustafic, 90, who had "not said a word in 40 years, began to talk, explained that "I just didn't want to do military service, so I stopped talking in 1920. Then I got used...