Although Ms. Peretti is hipper and droller, and Mr. Peretti is geekier, their wit binds them.
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The two, Droll and Droller, pair deliciously, but they don't hog the proceedings, leaving plenty of room for all sorts of other colorful characters to make an impression.
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The plot, presented in a droller and less hysterical vein in the novel that inspired it, is a sci-fi variation on the theme of social paranoia that has long ruled teenage entertainment.
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"Lines and lines of coke" and the like become infinitely droller when delivered in his shrill cartoon bark, the voice of someone happy to dramatize, and for the record's duration impersonate, one particular extreme mode of being.
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Gerard Droller was born in Germany. He worked with Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the Maquis in France during World War II. On 21 April 1959, Droller had a three-hour meeting with Fidel Castro in a hotel room in New York City after the latter's visit to Washington.Thomas (1971), p.431Szulc (1986) In June 1960, Droller was sent to Miami, as Chief Political Action (C/WH/4/PA) under Jacob Esterline to help organize the overthrow of Fidel Castro in Cuba.
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Gerard "Gerry" Droller (1905? - 1992) was a German CIA officer involved in the covert 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état and the recruitment of Cuban exiles in the preparation of the Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961.
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The principal of Hindley School is Julie Droller. Hindley has a school orchestra, band and chorus which together give a holiday concert each December. For decades also the band chorus and orchestra perform in a spring concert. The Hindley Happening, a small fair, which has been held each spring on the school grounds.
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In 1892, his first operetta, Fairy Genesta, was produced at Surbiton, and he appeared in it himself. A reviewer praised both his work and his performance: "Laughing Mrs Cooper, pretty Miss Inez Roe, indefatigable Mr Orlebar, droll Mr Trouncer, and droller Mr Ivimey, in one night winning more renown (in Surbiton) than John Gilpin in his famous ride, or many a heaven-sent genius after years of patient toil."Clement Scott, Bernard Edward Joseph Capes, Charles Eglington, Theatre, Vol. 19 (1892), p.
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Adopting the name Frank Bender, he posed as a wealthy steel tycoon. His main task was to recruit and organize the political leaders of anti-Castro Cuban exiles in the Miami area, assisted by E. Howard Hunt alias "Eduardo". He recruited Manuel Artime who became the leader of Movimiento de Recuperación Revolucionaria (Revolutionary Recovery Movement), (MRR), and later Brigade 2506. During 1960 and 1961, Droller organized the setting up of training camps for Cuban exiles at Useppa Island, Florida, and at Retalhuleu, Guatemala by arrangement with Guatemalan president Miguel Ydigoras.
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In March 1960 a top-secret policy paper was drafted entitled: "A Program of Covert Action Against the Castro Regime" (code-named JMARC), "to bring about the replacement of the Castro regime with one more ... acceptable to the U.S. in such a manner as to avoid any appearance of U.S. intervention." This paper was based on operation PBSuccess, the policy that had worked so well in Guatemala in 1954. In fact, Bissell assembled the same team as the one used in Guatemala: Tracy Barnes, David Atlee Phillips, Jacob Esterline, William "Rip" Robertson, E. Howard Hunt and Gerry Droller (aka "Frank Bender"). Added to the team were Jack Hawkins (Colonel), Desmond FitzGerald, William Harvey and Ted Shackley.
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Available via ProQuest. The New York Times review of the book quoted Bishop on the aim of light verse (see above), and commented: "at that kind of understood misunderstanding, Mr. Bishop is one of the pre-eminentest".Lewis Nichols, "The Dish is Light" (review of A Bowl of Bishop), The New York Times, 11 April 1954. Available via ProQuest. The Best of Bishop, a posthumous (1980) anthology by Charlotte Putnam Reppert, received a short and dismissive review in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the anonymous reviewer saying that Ogden Nash's poetry was "kinder" than Bishop's, James Thurber's was "droller", and "that of both – better".Anonymous untitled review of The Best of Bishop, Virginia Quarterly Review, vol. 57 (1981). Available via ProQuest.
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