Word: sexlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...introduction to Pioneer Women, by Joanna Stratton '76, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. recalls the iron-gray Auntie Em of The Wizard of Oz, the sexless and colorless lady of the Kansas plains who has come to represent the withered frontier woman in the minds of childhood readers. The transformation of Dorothy's maternal surrogate, one of the more familiar passages of the beloved novel, goes like this...
Welcoming Old Age It was good to read a scientific substantiation of what Gray Panthers have long believed-that the image of all elderly as toothless, sexless and energyless is a stereotype...
...fashioned ones who worry that a son who plays with dolls will be a sissy, and the new-fashioned ones who worry that a son who doesn't play with dolls will never be a caring, involved father. Nonsexist, writes Pogrebin, is not the same as unisex or sexless. It is a way of freeing individualism, of "opening all possibilities to children so they are not predestined by gender...
...much of a born actress to take quite seriously. But so beautiful, so graceful, so changeful in a hundred moods, so brilliant that it is enough to turn anyone's head," she wrote, adding perceptively that "part of her mysteriousness comes from her being, as it were, sexless." There were other flaws. Gladys was a liar, cruel, selfish, perverse, vulgar...
...seem to be all things to all the people he meets. Peter Sellers' meticulously controlled performance brings off this seemingly impossible task; as he proved in Lolita, he is a master at adapting the surreal characters of modern fiction to the naturalistic demands of movies. His Chance is sexless, affectless and guileless to a fault. His face shows no emotion except the beatific, innocent smile of a moron. His verbal repertoire consists only of mild pleasantries, polite chuckles and vague homilies about gardening. Sellers' gestures are so specific and consistent that Chance never becomes clownish or arch...