Word: hubbardism
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...victimized by crime than the middle class. Specialization, abstraction and rhetorical overkill - all have made native wit afraid to show its face. Political candidates no longer employ the folk idiom in their speeches. Humorists rarely use the short, acute idiom of Lincoln, Twain - or a Hoosier caricaturist named Kin Hubbard. A pity. In the voice of Abe Martin, a wise old rustic, Hubbard once cracked: "Ther's some folks standin' behind the President that ought t' git around where he kin watch'em." No matter how informed its consultants, how great its G.N.P., a country without...
Kilson's comment at the end of the speech story was totally unnecessary. He was present only as an observer. Prof. Ruth Hubbard (Biology) was also present at the speech, but evidently Lemann decided a woman's view was not important. Then too, her comment wouldn't have added to the purpose of his story, to make an intelligent, outspoken Black women look totally foolish, ignorant, and "niggerish" to Crimson readers...
Supply rooms have become as barren as Mother Hubbard's cupboard. "There's never enough paper," complains a teacher at an inner city elementary school. "So far this year I've bought ten reams of paper myself. It's a matter of protecting your own sanity -when you see a kid without anything to do, you've got to get him a pencil and a piece of paper...
With such men, Hubbard believes, the threat of force is actually "counterproductive." In fact, the skyjacker seems to respond to greater force with increasingly violent tactics of his own. A good example, says Hubbard, is the sky-marshal program. "Before marshals arrived on the scene, skyjackers were arming themselves with pistols. When the Government escalated, so did the hijackers; now they use a pistol and a bomb." To make things worse, the Government has virtually abandoned the marshal program, yet has made only a low-key-and little noticed-announcement to that effect. As a result, skyjackers have not reduced...
...greatest deterrent to skyjacking, Hubbard says, would be an international agreement to send the air pirates back to the country where they committed their crime. Without exception, skyjackers have told Hubbard that they would never have gone through with their plans if they had been certain of immediate return to the U.S. In particular, Hubbard told TIME Correspondent Leo Janos, the four men who killed the agent in Houston must be sent back by the Cubans, "or else the life of every airline ticket agent in this country is up for grabs." Hubbard acknowledges that negotiations with Cuba...