Word: sectionalism
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...beginning and rarely standing up. When he did move about, he staggered. He played his keyboard mostly at will; often he waved his hands in the air, keeping no better time than the more enthusiastic members of his audience. The backing band, which at times boasted a string section of five and a brass section of three, had a professional conductor...
...then, there are those who do. Not directly, of course. But the kid you recognize who is winning attention by dancing on the top of the T stop is from Texas, not Boston, god dammit. There is that person from section who’s going crazy just caught up in the moment. Then you see a few real fans who can actually provide an attempt at justifying why the “Yankees suck”—not so much “Jeter swallows,” though—and you realize that hey, this...
...Wilson’s behavior became stranger. Fearing his house was bugged, he held business meetings in his swimming pool. He suspected that he was being frightened by Phil Spector-hired “mind gangsters.” Studio musicians donned plastic fire hats while recording a section predictably called “Fire”—and he set a small blaze in the studio to create the smell of smoke. When he learned later that there had been a fire near the studio and a small outbreak of fires in the area, he immediately stopped...
Winston, then a doctoral student who taught an organizational behavior class for the section, calls Bush “an average student with a comic side.” Winston, one of the few black teachers at the time, had developed and taught a course called Organizational Development in the Inner City at the school previously. Although that class was overflowing, and was ranked second of 66 electives by students, when a new head of Winston’s department arrived he canceled the class, and sent Winston to teach the core organizational behavior class for section...
...Keesing as well as for most of Bush’s fellow students in Section C, the Bush presidency has thrown a film over memories of Bush as a younger...