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Lately, however, bisexuality has been hard to overlook. Bisexual characters are the newest twist in movies and TV shows, most notably Basic Instinct and L.A. Law. PBS recently broadcast a drama based on the lives of writers Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson, both bisexuals. Authors Camille Paglia and the late John Cheever have confessed their sexual duality; recent biographies claim that Laurence Olivier, Cary Grant and Eleanor Roosevelt had affairs with both men and women...
...poetry, there is an exactness of language which Kevin claims forbids extrapolation. "I think poets are very careful in their writing, "Kevin says. "It's not like you have Camille Paglia disease, where they can take you out of context." But Kevin is also aware of the cultural possibilites of poetry, and the legacy of the epic which will explain and contain all of a people's history. Epics have become something of a phantasm. Kevin says, "There's this attitude that some poem is going to come along and save our lives, that it will be the perfect poem...
Professor Catherine Clinton's objection to Camille Paglia's personal attacks on big-shot Harvard professors is off the mark...
...know whether she belongs to the little ladies' sewing circle known as "Women's Studies," but if not, she should watch its behavior carefully. When confronted with wimpy males, the "agonistic" feminist warhorses paw the ground and snort fire. But when Camille Paglia comes to town, they fall silent in hurt shock, too noble or too scared to reply. Or else they go whimpering to whimpering to Daddy for protection, "Daddy" is Harvard University, formerly a bastion of male arrogance and exclusiveness, now suddenly transformed into a monument of civility and scholarly courtesy...
Those who did not see Camille Paglia last March 19 missed on the great rhetorical performances in my 40-plus years at Harvard. But the speech also had substance, and it was this: Today's radical feminism knows nothing of love or of sex, and so knows nothing about women and men. It denies human nature, and it can't stand fun. Harvey C. Mansfield Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government