Word: caveman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest works include, among literally scores of others, a Kiss, which made him famous, a bathrobe which made him notorious, and a meditative caveman who made him immortal. The bathrobe was carved upon the statue of Balzac, hiding the pudgy limbs, revealing the noble head. It caused a furious outcry and was, naturally, rejected. But the conception was quite logical, for Balzac's head was the only distinguished feature of his personal appearance. Therefore, in the statue, the head is the only thing the observer sees. The rest is bathrobe...
...copy of the magnificent caveman, The Thinker, of which Rodin cast several examples in bronze, is seated now in front of the Detroit Museum of Art, where it was placed last autumn...
Parody is at once one of the easiest and one of the most difficult forms of literary performance. It is an old, old business. As old, let us say, as the impulse to destroy your fellow caveman, whom you could not lick on the physical merits, by withdrawing to a safe distance and mimicking his personal mannerisms and tone of voice, or exaggerating in a drawing on a cliff-face the length of his nose or the style of his whiskers...