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...That girl had very strong thoughts of sex, but I'm just sexless, I guess...
...Astaire Studios and Arthur Murray's were offering instruction up to the Ph.D. level, including such variations as the Under Arm Step, the Indian Hop, and the Kennedy Stomp. But even the experts still seemed somewhat confused. "The Pachanga," Arthur Murray pronounced sagely, "is gay and fun and sexless." Clearly, Murray had been watching the Palladium's handkerchiefs, not its skirts...
...other principals are somewhat less polished. To Patience Joan Corbett brought a voice that Miss Russell would categorize as "English--pleasant, pure, and utterly sexless." The stock part of the yearning tenor Gilbert has split into two roles, a comic duke and a second poet--this one Swinburne. (One of the chief technical flaws of Patience is W.S.G.'s halfhearted attempts to tinker with a successful and standard formula; the only result is a fragmentation of the familiar.) As the duke, Stephen A. Barre has a few good gestures and not much of a voice. The voice of the "Idyllic...
...CHAPMAN REPORT, by Irving Wallace (371 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $4.50), fills an unfelt need for a peeping tome to set beside Peyton Place. Dr. Chapman is an all but sexless biologist who has extended his studies of the lemur and marmoset to the sex habits of U.S. males and females. With his worshipful male research team, Chapman invades "The Briars," an upper middle-class Los Angeles suburb, to do interviews for A Sex History of the American Married Female. Expectedly, all the watched sexpots in The Briars boil over, either during the interviewing sessions or in uncontrolled experiments. Among...
When they are not, in Fiedler's view, "infuriatingly boyish," the masterworks of U.S. fiction, e.g., Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, The Red Badge of Courage, are sexless. Even in The Scarlet Letter, the "A" might as well stand for anticlimax, for all passion is spent before the novel begins. Instead of depicting love and marriage, the U.S. writer customarily projects a spectral landscape dominated by death, pursuit and flight. The U.S. novel does not derive its power from skill, according to Fiedler, or from its vaunted realism (from Poe to Nathanael West, it is often surreal), but from something...