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...cured of his homosexuality after an affair with a student at Houston's University of St. Thomas led to his being fired as a music professor. (He had been fired from another job for similar reasons in 1964.) He reportedly confided to a lover that he longed for sexless devotion, passion without physical entanglements. Whatever the facts, Applewhite spun his own myth: the personal turmoil was the result of his body's coming under the influence of a being from the "Next" level, part of the discovery that...
...current Broadway production of the King and I, the King of Siam, once played with electric virility by Yul Brynner, comes off as curiously sexless. Overt animal masculinity seems to have been suppressed, perhaps as being retrograde, or even offensive to the spirit of the age. That musky beast belongs offstage, or in the Museum of Natural History...
...impossible to tell what gender a particular dancer is; the women are as strong as the men and the men as graceful as the women. Everyone is androgynous and, for the most part, of undiscernable race, a superhuman grouof powerful, raceless, sexless beings, so talented that it is clear they could not be mere mortals...
...terrain. The era is the Depression, the battleground is a Jewish family, the ugly rumbling offstage is the rise of Adolf Hitler. The mainspring of the play is the paralysis that Sylvia Gellburg suffers in her legs, which has no apparent physical cause. Is it a result of her sexless and bitter marriage? Is it linked to the futile assimilationism of her Jew-among-Wasps banker husband? Is it somehow tied to her Cassandra-like obsession with Hitler's assault on German Jews, a threat in which no one around her sees urgency? Or is her disability a plea...
There is something about church music that attracts even the most agnostic British composer whenever a major statement is called for. The choristers decked out in liturgical robes, the angelic, sexless piping of boy sopranos, the hovering vicars, the culturally resonant majesty of the cathedral setting -- the whole High Church atmosphere has consistently evoked a corresponding High Seriousness in composers as disparate as Handel, John Stainer, Elgar and Andrew Lloyd Webber...