Word: sexlessness
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...Japanese and Indian manuscripts. As a schoolboy prodigy, "in one minute Kien had memorized ∏ to 65 decimal places." As a grown-up scholar, he lives in solitude, utterly shut off from the world by the tomes of his magnificent library, wholly dedicated to pedantry. One sad day, this sexless, infantile genius decides to marry his housekeeper, because she is the only person he can trust to dust his books...
...Berlin in 1933. Today he plays about 70 recitals a season, and is glad to see his audiences spreading beyond the earnest, humorless cultists he once played to. Says he: "Audiences used to be largely record collectors and cranks who also liked folk dancing because it was pure and sexless." Kirkpatrick, a bachelor, lives in a tiny Manhattan apartment crowded with two harpsichords, an 18th Century piano, a clavichord and a thousand books. To keep his instruments in tune he seldom turns on the radiator ("My friends stay away in the winter to keep from catching cold"). He plays Bach...
...rackety, to indulge her imagination, which is chaotic, and display her wit, which is calamitous. Her Honey Bee Carroll (Joan Blondell) inhabits an insane world of trained dogs, live monkeys, mauve milliners, thieving ladies'-room attendants-a world that Gypsy never makes funny and somehow manages to make sexless...
Hamilton examined the heads of a group of 54 men who had failed to mature sexually or were rendered sexless by accident. Not one of them was bald, though 43% of normal men lose much of their hair in middle age. The unmasculine also had much less dandruff than normal...
Shapiro's feat is the latest development in the artificial parthenogenesis, or sexless reproduction, of mammals. Sexless reproduction occurs naturally among many insects and has long been induced by curious biologists in sea urchins and frogs. Fatherless mammals were first produced in 1939 by Dr. Gregory Pincus (now of Clark University), who artificially fertilized ova from doe rabbits by 1) a salt solution, 2) heat, 3) cold. The salt-fertilized eggs, with no contact at all from the male, were replanted in the does and gestated normally into healthy bunnies, themselves capable of sexual reproduction...