Word: droll
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vidal's by now familiar and overexposed cynicism. Some parts are guarded and smirky for the lucky few. For example, not many readers will link the name of the real lady (N.A. Steers) to whom the book is dedicated with a later reference to "the heroine of a droll revision of the Cinderella story" whose stepsisters Vidal describes as "the two most successful adventuresses of our time...
...Droll Humor. A lanky 6 ft. 1 in., William King at 45 looks like one of his own sculptures. Born in Florida, he took up engineering, soon became bored and headed for New York. He enrolled at Cooper Union and, three years later, won a Fulbright scholarship to study sculpture in Italy. His earliest works were wood carvings of bathers, musicians and athletes, which owed much to American folk...
Even then his droll humor was evident. In 1964, while using burlap to impress the texture of cloth in his lost-wax bronzes, he hit upon the idea of making sculptures out of the burlap itself draped over metal armatures. He quickly became handy with a needle and thread, still chuckles over the fact that when thieves recently broke into his studio, they walked off with his old secondhand Singer sewing machine and ignored his sculptures (which command...
Always the social scientist, Gerzon avoids the droll stories, the epigrams and the sassy obscenity that made Kunen's Strawberry Statement so palatable. Whatever flavor there is in this book comes from a few sparse anecdotes which record the author's trivial brushes with the Establishment. In one encounter, a hawkish stewardess starts a discussion of the Vietnam war. She is confounded...