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...with describing one party by listing names: "'Dean?' I yelled across the party--which included Angel Luz Garcia, the poet; Walter Evans; Victor Villanueva, the Veneauelan poet; Jinny Jones, a former love of mine;...(etc.)... and innumerable others--'Come over here, man.'" The lack of concreteness keeps the book sexless, despite the incredible amount of sleeping around. Kerouac has a long way to go if he really wants to imitate Henry Miller...

Author: By John H. Fincher, | Title: Beat Generation's Busy Dissipation | 11/2/1957 | See Source »

Writ by stodgy, sexless sages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISCONTENT | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...famed Countertenor Deller. Once the listener becomes adjusted to antique shifts of harmony, the music becomes extremely poignant. But countertenors-male voices that have been trained to sing in the falsetto range, but with more than falsetto power and resonance-are less easily adjusted to. for their tones sound sexless and unsettling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Dec. 17, 1956 | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...Tower of Pisa; or condemning a bayonet for not being a plough. Shaw's genius was for intellectual slum-clearance, not for town planning . . . If Chaucer is the father of English literature, Shaw is the spinster aunt. By this I do not mean to imply that he was sexless ... It is only in his writing that the aunt in him rises up, full of warnings, wagged fingers and brandished umbrellas . . . Shaw was unique. An Irish aunt so gorgeously drunk with wit is something English literature will never see again. But there is fruit for the symbolist in the fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reappraisal of G.B.S. | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...thousands of colored banners and whipped them through the air. It was a fine day for the public reappearance of one of the revolution's most lamented victims: the skirt. For the first time, women marchers stepped along smartly in bright spring frocks and blouses instead of the sexless jackets and pants of recent years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: The New Look | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

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