Word: rub
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carmel, a little world of its own on California's Monterey Peninsula where artists, the indolent wealthy and year-round vacationers rub elbows, is well used to strange characters. But it discovered a new kind in 60-year-old Norman Duxbury, caretaker of the city's outdoor Forest Theater. Like all the other city employees, Duxbury signed the state's new non-Communist oath. Then, after the city clerk looked up his voting record, Duxbury admitted that he had been a Communist all along...
...Edward FitzGerald got his first look at a copy of a 400-year-old manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian Library. He began translating the quatrains of the forgotten Persian astronomer-poet, Omar Khayyám. In a short time, FitzGerald's translations swept into vogue, and the Rubáiyát's call to "A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou" became a literary contagion...
...many that it began to seem impossible that Omar could have written them all. Some quatrains were also attributed to other poets, and scholars began to conclude that Omar was just a convenient name on which to pin any wine-colored quatrains that turned up. As for the Rubáiy5ádt, scholars also had doubts: Was Omar a really good poet, or had FitzGerald merely made him seem...
Though there is already an opportunity for inter-school contact over the plastic food trays and modernistic armchairs of Harkness Commons, dining halls are notoriously cliquish places. It is in the corridors and the communal washrooms that minds are most likely to rub, or bump together, and it is there that they should be mixed...
...Rub shoulders with reality. "If young men . . . are formed in character in an atmosphere too far removed from the world, when they leave the seminary they may find serious difficulties in their relations with the faithful and also with cultured laity . . . It is necessary to diminish gradually and with due prudence the present detachment of the future priest from the people so that he will not feel lost at the beginning of his ministry...