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...comments I made about the closing of the American mind have been proved -- in spades -- not by the negative reviews but by the violence and passion of the reaction. I'm an elitist, I'm a sexist -- you know, all the great political terms. You only had to wait for a few months after the book's success for such "intellectuals" to come...
...since come to regard universities as much less reliable allies. My critics see extreme moral indignation. I have much more contempt for the disproportionately great pretensions and claims about their courage and beliefs than any real anger. But I didn't really write the book to settle accounts. My passion comes out of the sense of what's important and the freedom that comes through study and the concern for young persons who are being deprived of all standards outside themselves. But the book is not the brooding account of someone's anger. It's really the memoir...
...experience love as heightened drama. "One of the things that always make for a great love story is the obstacles," she says. "These writers are bringing to these stories not only their experiences of illicit love but enough illicitness to make the stories more exciting and infuse them with passion and intensity...
...That passion, curiously, is expressed in each show through strong women. A gay man, says Ball, can see men through a straight woman's eyes--"We understand how weird men are"--but he believes he can also view women with greater detachment. "Once you remove the illusory screen of romantic projection, there is a person," he says, "and it's easier for a gay man to see the person in a female character." And, says Showtime entertainment president Robert Greenblatt, gay writers are more inclined to think about gender roles and stereotypes. "Straight men don't think about gender...
...fact, Gaines' enthusiastic explications of such Bach masterworks as the Offering, the St. Matthew Passion and the B Minor Mass are what counterbalance his portrait of the brilliant, troubled, contradictory Frederick, whose commanding presence might otherwise have taken over the book. Bach's hardheaded, self-sufficient genius, Gaines asserts, enabled him "to make his music the sum and pinnacle of all the music of his time and so to prepare the way not just for a distinctively German musical language but for all of Western music...