Word: droll
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...vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th Century has never recovered from the effect of Marx or Freud." (V.G.); "but whether this a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This the quantitative aspect of grading--we are, after all, getting five dollars a head for you dolts and therefore pile up as many of you apiece as we can get--this is what too many of you seem to forget. "Coleridge may be said...
...KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING brings its three droll and touching playlets to Dennis, Mass., Aug. 4-9; Nashville, Tenn., through Aug. 10; Los Angeles Gallery Theater through Aug. 15; Fish Creek, Wis., Aug. 12-17; Reading, Pa., Aug. 13-24; Woodstock, Vt., Aug. 19-23; Ogunquit, Me., Aug. 18-23; ancf Skowhegan...
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. Playhouse. The characters in the four droll and sometimes touching playlets of Robert Anderson's You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running share a universal preoccupation, sex, as it is used in art, as it wanes in middle age, as it bemuses parents of adolescent children, and as a fading memory of the very...
...British monarchy may well be a contemporary "retreat to Camelot" [June 27], but it is a far more enjoyable adventure than that provided by the droll leadership of most Western republics. At least the monarchy, for all of its faults, gives us some relief from the total lack of style of most of today's politicians...
...fascination with automobile races: "They don't come to see a crash, but if there were never any crashes they'd never come," Because of such commentaries, Harry Reasoner is widely recognized for his wit and perception; in 1966 he received a Peabody Award for his droll television essays. Reasoner is indeed wit ty and perceptive, as he shows in the radio and TV scripts he writes himself...