Word: hubbardism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
These fictional passengers are afflicted by the hijackee syndrome. Unlike the passenger-victims who react with understandable outrage at being kidnaped, bullied and threatened, there always seem to be those who emerge from the shattering experience burbling warm praise for the captors. In fact, says Psychiatrist David G. Hubbard, director of the Aberrant Behavior Center in Dallas, "It is as common as dirt...
Some psychologists think that hijackers cash in on widespread hostility to authority. Once the air passenger believes he will not be killed, says Dr. Hubbard, he can view his captor as a dashing desperado lashing out against the Establishment. Also, victims sometimes see the hijacking as a free ticket to adventure and personal publicity. Says Hubbard: "Passengers know that the game, correctly played, will make them celebrities among their circle of friends. For a moment, too, they can run away from wives, mortgages, the Internal Revenue Service and the church appeal...
JAZZ. Mondays, at Michael's Pub (211 E. 55th St.), a group called the New Orleans Funeral and Ragtime Orchestra cuts loose, featuring, on clarinet, a sweetly swinging, nonjoking Woody Allen. Freddie Hubbard plays some hard-driving trumpet at the Schaefer Festival in Central Park on July 14. Buddy Rich may be caught at Storyville (41 E. 58th St.). Uptown, at the Carlyle Hotel (Madison Ave. and 76th St.), Bobby Short wraps standards and show tunes in well-cut velvet, and downtown, in the Village, the Charles Mingus group explores the furthest perimeters of jazz...
Died. DeHart Hubbard, 72, running broad jumper who in 1924 became the first black American to win an Olympic gold medal; following a virus infection; in Cleveland...
Anyway, to make a long story short, near the end of the week, President Bok, a known jazz fan himself, invited a bunch of resident musicologists and other dignitaries to a fancy cocktail party/reception (not very fancy, there was no Canadian Club) in honor of Hubbard...