Word: hub
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kristol, 33, onetime managing editor of the U.S. monthly Commentary (TIME, Jan. 29, 1951), Encounter hopes to provide "an interchange of views among intellectuals of the whole English-speaking world." Anything that has any bearing "on culture or freedom," explains Editor Kristol. "or preferably both together, will be the hub of the magazine." In its first issue, Encounter prints articles, fiction and poetry by writers from six countries, including the unpublished diaries of Virginia Woolf, essays by France's Albert Camus and British-born Christopher Isherwood, poetry by C. Day Lewis and Edith Sitwell. Among future contributors of articles...
School Phobia. In most ages and in many communities, oldsters would have prescribed a dose of strap oil for Fred and let it go at that. But Boston has become a hub for child psychiatry, and at the center Fred and his mother found sympathetic help. His trouble was common enough: "school phobia," the psychiatrists and social workers called it. But they well knew that while the complaint may be common, the cause is different in each case...
...Architect Donald Barthelme designed the West Columbia elementary school, south of Houston, to allow freedom of expansion. The school is really a series of spokes which can be added to the hub at will. To save money, he eliminated corridors: pupils go from room to room through courtyards. At the hub of the school is the common room-"Just a big hall/' says Barthelme, "where kids spill in and kids spill...
...last serenade. They work in pairs, taking turns toting the barrel, winding the crank and passing the hat. Their instruments, invariably German-made, are rented (for 5 pesos a day) from old Maestro Gilberto Lazaro, whose enormous, crumbling house in Tepito, the thieves' market, is the hub of the hurdy-gurdy business. Lazaro places the notes on the wood-and-wire cylinders of his organs, first mastering the tunes by listening to records, then beating them out on a piano...
...Specialist. In Memphis, Rubin Parham confessed in court that he had made his living for the past three years by stealing automobile hub caps, selling them for 25? apiece...