ETC.: A Review of General Semantics articles from December 2001

ETC.: A Review of General Semantics archives from December 2001

General Semantics in journalism: Introduction.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... Don Ranly (*) Once before I described on these pages the long history of General Semantics at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. (1) Former Dean Earl English, now deceased, received his doctorate in psychology at the...

GS goes to journalism school. (Special Section).
December 22, 2001... KRISTIE MCCLANAHAN (*) Wendell Johnson, People in Quandaries JOURNALISM AND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD MARYJO SYLWESTER Philip Meyer, a journalism professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, proposed journalists...

The word "is not" the bird.(Editorial)
December 22, 2001... NORA MILLER (*) Do you remember a moment when you really "got" the general semantics formulation that "the word is not the thing?" I remember vividly one such experience. I had just spent 30 minutes creeping around under a tree in my back...

Abstractions.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. MARSHALL MCLUHAN We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers. CARL SAGAN Live the question and some day you will grow into the...

The word "is" the thing: The "kotodama" belief in Japanese communication.
December 22, 2001... KAZUYA HARA (*) PART II In modern-day Japanese people's attribution of meaning to their words, they sometimes feel as if a word itself has the power to make something happen. This concept is called kotodama, the superstitious folk...

A neglected anniversary. (The Accidental Bathtub Hoax).
December 22, 2001... H. L. MENCKEN (*) We tend to accept bibliographic and other references as true and correct. They have the authority of "experts," authenticated by print, legitimized by time, often supported by authority established by earlier authorities....

Koans of time-binding.
December 22, 2001... BRIAN H. SPITZBERG, PH.D. (*) Koans evolved as teaching techniques in Asian philosophical and religious training. They suggest paradoxical or irresolvable ideas, puzzles, or queries designed to create enlightenment through the shedding of...

Opening the closed mind: Making assumptions, jumping to conclusions.
December 22, 2001... SANFORD I. BERMAN, PH.D. (*) What Do You Assume? One of the most important questions that we can ask ourselves is, "What am I assuming when I am thinking, talking and behaving?" When we are speaking, listening, thinking, observing,...

Haiku.(Poem)
December 22, 2001... Haiku Hungry sand fleas bite! Blazing sunset, crashing waves. Two thoughts on one beach. Oh no, email's down. My thoughts, mere tendrils of light, can't get through right now. Waiting for the bus, Office behind, home...

General semantics in the supervision and staff development of drug prevention specialists.
December 22, 2001... MARTIN H. LEVINSON, PH.D.(*) I have used the formulations and strategies of general semantics for over fifteen years to assist PROJECT SHARE Substance Abuse Prevention and Intervention Specialists (SAPIS) to find ways to overcome...

[Baseball.sup.2270] -- The A 's versus the Non-A 's.(Short Story)
December 22, 2001... PAUL DENNITHORNE JOHNSTON (*) In the 23rd Century, the Baseball Planet was perhaps the most successful of all the theme planets. This artificial planet drew more visitors and made more money for The Corporation than other such enterprises,...

[Glimpse.sup.winter 2001-2002].
December 22, 2001... "Facts as we see them are little more than quick glimpses of a ceaseless transformation..." -- Wendell Johnson, 'People in Quandaries' Find more at http://glimpse.blogspot.com Symbols and their Meanings As a nation, we seem to...

Membership page.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... We heard recently from Society member Laurie Cox, President of the Australian Society for General Semantics (AGS), and David Hewson, formerly residing in New Zealand, who now lives in Sydney, Australia. David, an Institute of General Semantics...

A brief history of internet time. (Metaphors in Action).
December 22, 2001... RAYMOND GOZZI, JR. (*) The second half of the 1990s experienced a "dot-corn boom" in the stock market and the media. Internet startup companies, with web addresses ending with ".com," were the hot commodity of the day. Fortunes were...

Governor Gerry would be envious. (Illustrating General Semantics).(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... ROBERT WANDERER (*) We all select bits to notice from the Out There, select related bits from the In Here, and combine them to form a Picture in Our Head that constitutes our version of reality. Along the way we reach certain conclusions...

Educators using general semantics. (Education).
December 22, 2001... Again, it gives us pleasure to provide a directory of educators using general semantics formulations in their courses. Continuing in the tradition established by the late Mary Morain, ISGS VP for Membership, we have attempted to expand the...

"Socrates" visits the New York society for general semantics. (News & Notes).(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... "Socrates" gave a talk sponsored by the New York Society for General Semantics at the Albert Ellis Institute in New York City. Actually, it was author Ronald Gross introducing his book Socrates' Way: Eight Keys to Using Your Mind to the Utmost!...

Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture. (News & Notes).(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... Dr. Lou Marinoff, author of the popular philosophical practice selfhelp book, Plato, Not Prozac, gave the Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture on November 9, 2001, in New York City. The lecture was sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics....

America - Naming the Country and its People. (Books).(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... Allen Walker Read. America - Naming the Country and Its People. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2001. A number of years ago Allen Walker Read, a noted "naming scholar," spent more than three full years researching newspapers in...

The Secret of Serenity: A User's Manual for the Brain. (Books).
December 22, 2001... William J. Hartman. The Secret of Serenity: A User's Manual for the Brain. Bloomington, Indiana: 1st Books Library, 2000. William J. Hartman believes that general semantics can be useful to reduce emotional problems and produce serenity. In...

Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. (Books).
December 22, 2001... David T. Courtwright. Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2001. Why are coffee, tobacco, and marijuana available throughout the world, but not peyote or qat? Why are...

Strip Show: Performances of Gender and Desire. (Books).
December 22, 2001... Katherine Liepe-Levinson. Strip Show: Performances of Gender and Desire. New York: Routledge, 2002. This book offers an account of an unprecedented North American study of contemporary female and male strip shows. It particularly focuses...

Fifty years ago in etc. (Retrospect).
December 22, 2001... Interest in semantics, which received its popular impetus in the late 1930's as a result of anxious inquiry into the nature and effects of propaganda, led serious students ever deeper into the full implications of the fact that man is the...