Word: sectionalism
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...particularly remarkable and at times sound almost as if they are playing a single instrument, as they easily synchronize to toss off some difficult violin licks. To keep the music from becoming too heavy during the opera’s emotional ballads, the strings section play using specialized bow strokes with an expertise that betrays their experience as seasoned players...
...through the diction of Harvard’s undergrads. Instead of the reasoned, eloquent, SAT-word-enriched speech one would expect to find in America’s most prestigious institution of post-secondary education, a type of indiscreet, absent-minded, and otherwise unintelligent sounding disclaimer is infiltrating every section on campus. It is high time that something is said about...
...maybe you really don’t know what you’re talking about. Maybe you are so naturally brilliant that you don’t do the readings, you don’t go to lecture, and you just go to section to make sure that your gut instincts are still right on the money. If this is the case, I’m sorry—you can continue saying “I feel like...
...question hangs in the air like the stench of vomit in the New Quincy elevator. My fellow section mates and I glance downward, furiously writing notes. We don’t want to get put on the spot. The seconds tick by. The TF waits...
...Latin, but this isn’t your four-person seminar about Fitzgerald. This is Harvard. Your TF is smarter than you are. And if you think you can fool her by dropping Weber, you are an even bigger tool than that weird bearded kid who always sleeps through section...