Word: sectionman
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...minority. We dressed for class, for the invasion, because we were a spectacle. Often the entire Freshman Union would clamber to its feet when a woman entered, cheering, pounding silverware, jeering or bellowing. I remember being a one-girl exhibition in a Hum 8 section of 25: the sectionman would spend 40 out of 50 minutes making wisecracks about football, and then he would catch himself mid-sentence and bow like Sir Galahad before me inquiring, "And Madamoiselle, how goes the fashion world, pray?" This was the same attitude that insisted on parietals through 1969, that kicked...
Graduate school proved to be a strain upon a flagging family budget, so Segal taught, first as a sectionman in Humanities 7 and then in John Finley's Hum 2. "I really found myself, I think, in '59, despite the fact that it was a personal crisis in my own life that made me turn to teaching...
...back to Barnard Hall. Remember reading period of freshman year? It was so incredibly cold, and I had four exams and four long papers, papers I actually wrote. And when I fell apart before the last one, and flew home to New York, and nerved myself to call the sectionman for an extension, he said, "Why not? Everyone else in the class has got one." My mother typed that paper...
...just read a novel by Mr. D. H. Lawrence; no, that would be to elude the proper ritual. Instead, you must first listen to Sectionm?? extol the importance and uniqueness of Lawrence's place in English lit. Then you must nod in understanding agreement as Sectionman points out Rogaine imagery and influence from Mr. Lawrence's "real life." And, finally, just as somewhere in yourself you begin to feel that Lawrence really is pretty great, quite uncanny in the power of his perceptions and vision, ?apl they pull the rug out from under you. Sectionman will begin to smirk...
...rated R -which means only that even an orphan can get in if he looks old enough to be bar mitzvahed-those of us who still have a few days of adolescence left to savor are not to be denied a chance to see Lawrence exposed for what, as Sectionman would have it, he really...