ETC.: A Review of General Semantics articles from December 2000

ETC.: A Review of General Semantics archives from December 2000

LIVING & LEARNING: Talking with One of the Creators.(interview with Leo Globus)(Interview)
December 22, 2000... PAUL GLOBUS [*] MORE THAN 47 years have past since my parents, Leo and Helen Globus, created the songs for children known as "Living & Learning." Many families still own the 10-inch long-playing record. Today, as an audio cassette, the...

GENERAL SEMANTICS -- FUTURE DIRECTIONS.
December 22, 2000... RACHEL M. LAUER [*] I SEE OUR using general-semantics formulations primarily in the service of education; that is, in supporting an educational revolution that is now on the horizon. Education sparks much debate today among American...

From 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.(Excerpt)
December 22, 2000... ARTHUR C. CLARKE [*] NEW ANIMAL was abroad on the planet, spreading slowly out from the African heartland. It was still so rare that a hasty census might have overlooked it, among the teeming billions of creatures roving over land and sea....

GEN-SPEC.(academic relationship between mathematics and language)
December 22, 2000... THE MATHSEMANTIC MONITOR [*] ONCE UPON A TIME there was a country with two languages, a general language, Gen, and a specialized language, Spec (rhymes with peck). Almost all adults in the country used both Gen and Spec to some degree....

E- CONSCIOUSNESS.(Column)
December 22, 2000... PAUL DENNITHORNE JOHNSTON [*] THE EDITORS OF THESE CHRONICLES must confess to employing a rather tawdry cinematic cliche. Although the cinema has been superseded by the holocaster with its multiplicity of sensory experiences, it was the...

STEVE ALLEN 1921-2000.(Obituary)
December 22, 2000... Steve Allen, pioneering television entertainer, producer, song writer, author of over 50 books, and longtime member of ISGS, died in October 2000. His general-semantics related activities included participation in an Institute of General...

THE BEAR FACTS OF TIME-BINDING?(animal behavior and human symbolism)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... GREGORY SAWIN [*] AN ARTICLE IN The Wall Street Journal [1] reported that bears in California's Yosemite National Park prefer Hondas and Toyotas for late-night snacks. In 1998, black bears were guilty of "car clouting"; they broke into...

THE LEGAL TURN OF MIND.(lawyers and politics)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... PAUL GLOBUS [*] In Shakespeare's Henry VI, a character suggests, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." I wouldn't go that far, but there's no denying that the number of lawyers in society is excessive. Take politics,...

D. DAVID BOURLAND, JR. 1928-2000.(Obituary)
December 22, 2000... Delphus David Bourland, Jr., President of ISGS since 1998, died at age 72 on October 12, 2000, in Wichita Falls, Texas. Services took place on October 16 at the Owens & Brumley Funeral Home Chapel in Wichita Falls with the Rev. Robert Replogle...

MEMBERSHIP PAGE.
December 22, 2000... Attended Dinner, Did Not Eat Rex Monahan, of Sterling, Colorado, wrote to us recently: At D. David Bourland Jr.'s request, the following is an attempt to recall my impressions of Alfred Korzybski whom I met at Denver University in July...

THE RELATIVITY OF INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL.
December 22, 2000... GREGG HOFFMANN [*] WE LEFT HAWAII at 12:30 a.m. on Monday and arrived in Sydney at 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Did we really fly for more than 24 hours? Of course not. Depending on whether you travel west or east, crossing the International...

METAPHOR AS SUPERIMPOSITION.(philosophical concept of superimposition)
December 22, 2000... RAYMOND GOZZI JR. [*] I WAS IN A MOTEL room recently and noticed a small, whitish spot on the rug, near the wall. The spot had a number of thin lines coming out from it. Immediately, I saw it as a bug of some sort, perhaps on its back with...

WORD BLOCKS HELP STUDENTS LEARN TO WRITE SENTENCES.
December 22, 2000... ROBERT IAN SCOTT [*] INTRODUCTION In 1957, Dr. Robert Ian Scott began teaching the grammar these blocks embody: Subject, Verb, Object, Qualifier (SVOQ). To help students learn to write a clear and informative English, Dr. Scott devised...

The Consolations of Philosophy.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Alain de Botton. The Consolations of Philosophy. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000. Alain de Botton believes we should use philosophy in daily living, that ideas from philosophy can provide consolation for a variety of typical human...

A General-Semantics Glossary: Pula's Guide for the Perplexed.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Robert P. Pula. A General-Semantics Glossary: Pula's Guide for the Perplexed. Concord, CA: International Society for General Semantics, 2000. In the fall of 1990, Bob Pula, famous among general semantics cognoscenti for his educational,...

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.(Review)
December 22, 2000... The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. This latest edition of the American Heritage Dictionary features over 10,000 new words that have found their way into the language; 4,000...

What Would Machiavelli Do?: The Ends Justify the Meanness.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Stanley Bing. What Would Machiavelli Do?: The Ends Justify the Meanness. New York: HarperBusiness, 2000. Are there places in the world for kind, considerate, fair-minded people? According to Stanley Bing, the author of What Would...

FIFTY YEARS AGO IN ETC.(semantics and the behavior of man)
December 22, 2000... General semantics is also concerned with the science of man. Its special contribution is toward the study of the evaluative behavior of man. The most crucial and distinctive component of man s evaluative behavior is the neurolinguistic...