Word: fandom
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...most amazing aspect of North Dakota fandom was singled out immediately by one Harvard booster: "What the hell is this? I've been going to games for four years, and I've never seen cheerleaders before...
...distraction from his work Roth most willingly tolerates is baseball. "My fandom," he says, without a trace of irony, "is the most interesting fact of my life." He talks eagerly about going to games as a boy and watching the old Newark Bears of the International League along with his older brother Sanford and his father, now a retired insurance-company executive. His boyhood passion was the Brooklyn Dodgers. "I went off to college, and then the Dodgers went off to L.A.," he says, shaking his head. Eventually, he transferred his allegiance to the New York Mets. Last summer...
...when Ian Curtis took his own life. New Order became a Doors for the rock sophisticate and Curtis a Jim Morrison figure. But New Order gradually moved to disassociate itself from the death-worship that is the bread and potatoes of second-generation rock fandom and by doing that may have poisoned its career. After a Joy Division tinged first album. New Order sped up the beat and resumed its search for "the meaning of life" (as NME so pompously puts it) through the heretofore scorned-upon medium of--gosh, gasp--disco. But it was not disco to send Black...
Especially to the celebrated. For Rupert is representative of a new and terrible type, the beamy-faced lunatic who transcends the traditional boundaries of fandom in two frightening ways. Thanks mainly to television and the pseudo intimacy with the famous that it allows, psychopaths like Rupert begin to think that their intense feelings for the people they so admiringly study must be reciprocated as soon as the star gets to know them. They are always amazed, and dangerously affronted, when all the psychic energy they have invested in their passion is rewarded not by a long-lost brother...
...much of this activity, attendees who were asked agreed, was a pretense for the discussions and parties that materialized in the hotel's rooms and corridors Friday afternoon, and only began to disperse as Sunday wore on. "Fandom attracts a type of person I feel comfortable with," said Leslie Turek '67. "Many science fiction fans are introverted people who can find a niche here and let themselves go," said Richard Gottlieb, a fan who has attended the last three "Boskones...