ETC.: A Review of General Semantics articles from December 2002

ETC.: A Review of General Semantics archives from December 2002

Three voices. (Refereed Paper).(English language, mathematics, business)
December 22, 2002... The Mathsemantic Monitor * TO THE BEST of our knowledge, what follows constitutes the first time that an English professor and a mathematics professor, let alone a business consultant, have publicly pooled their talents in an effort to...

Reflections on fanaticism.
December 22, 2002... The distinguishing characteristic of the fanatic is his highly simplified and rigidly held view of social reality. He casts aside the complex and unintegrated beliefs about causality which others use to make rough sense out of their world, in...

Mediatribes--making sense of popular culture, the mass media, and everyday life in America.
December 22, 2002... ONE ADVANTAGE of keeping journals is that you have a record of your ideas as they have evolved over the years. Recently I was looking through a journal written in 1980 and noticed plans I had made for teaching a course in popular culture. It...

The electronic imagination: requiem for a narrative.(influence of television)
December 22, 2002... IN HIS 1985 BOOK, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman analyzed the impact of television on modern life. The emergence of the new information technology in the intervening period has altered the landscape dramatically. Yet, apart from a...

Lobos. (Excerpt from 2 Kill or Not to Kill).
December 22, 2002... FRIDAY MORNING began routinely. Raven rose early, turned on the coffee maker and the classical music station, brought in his two newspapers from the top of his sloping driveway, scrambled two eggs, and sat down to read the papers over a...

Glimpse: Winter, 2002-2003.
December 22, 2002... A brief look at things for people interested in general semantics. "Facts as we see them are little more than quick glimpses of a ceaseless transformation..."--Wendell Johnson, People in Quandaries Find more at...

Kenneth G. Johnson: 1922-2002.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2002... For more than 30 years, Kenneth Johnson taught students how to learn. His general semantics course at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was one of the more popular and challenging classes in the Department of Journalism and Mass...

Not a desktop, not a metaphor. (Metaphors in Action).
December 22, 2002... FOR YEARS we have heard of the "desktop metaphor." It is the basis for the graphical user interface, or gui, between computers and users. The desktop metaphor has a colorful history. It was invented at Xerox Parc, but the Xerox corporation...

Consciousness of projection in composition and literature. (Education).
December 22, 2002... IN MY FRESHMAN composition classes at Wiley College, as I begin the Descriptive Essay Unit, I usually repeat a maxim first uttered to me by my eighth grade English teacher, the late Helen Bornemann, "SDT, SDT, Show Don't Tell, Show Don't Tell."...

The structural differential diagram: Part I. (General Semantics Basics).
December 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION Time-Binding In 1921, Alfred Korzybski, a Polish-American trained in mathematics and engineering, published Manhood of Humanity. In this book he held that humanity is a class of life distinctly different from animals...

Dr. Isabel Caro, psychologist and author, receives Talbot Winchell Award. (News & Notes).(Brief Article)
December 22, 2002... This year's J. Talbot Winchell Award has been presented to Dr. Isabel Caro of the University of Valencia, Spain. Granted annually to those who have significantly furthered the spread of general semantics, the award was handed to Dr. Caro at the...

New York Society for General Semantics. (News & Notes).(Brief Article)
December 22, 2002... Dr. Martin H. Levinson gave a reading from his new book The Drug Problem: A New View Using the General Semantics Approach at a meeting of the New York Society for General Semantics at the Ellis Institute in New York City in October, 2002. (Dr....

Attending Irish Conference. (News & Notes).(Brief Article)
December 22, 2002... Two GS authors will give presentations at a drug prevention meeting in Ireland in early 2003. Dr. Martin Levinson, author of The Drug Problem: A New View Using the General Semantics Approach, told ETC, "An official in the British government...

Editorial change. (News & Notes).(Brief Article)
December 22, 2002... With this issue of ETC, Jeremy Klein completes his final term as Editor-in-Chief of ETC. He became editor in 1990, seeing his appointment as "an opportunity to advance what I conceive as the ISGSIETC tradition." In 2001, the Institute of...

Institute of General Semantics. (News & Notes).(Brief Article)
December 22, 2002... J. Allan Hobson, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, gave the 2002 Alfred Korrybski Memorial Lecture on November 8 at the Yale Club...

Allen Walker Read, 1906-2002. (News & Notes).(Brief Article)
December 22, 2002... Distinguished lexicographer, GS scholar, and professor emeritus of English at Columbia University, Dr. Allen Walker Read died in Manhattan on October 16, 2002, at the age of 96. Dr. Read was an Honorary Trustee of the Institute of General...

Sapir-Whorf-Hypothesis redux. (News & Notes).
December 22, 2002... News & Notes directs the reader's attention to the November 30, 2002, issue of the British Magazine New Scientist which features Alison Motlux's article "You Are What You Speak" (sic). Her report begins provocatively: Does the...

New book. (News & Notes).(Brief Article)
December 22, 2002... ETC author Philip Vassallo's new book, The Art of On-The-Job Writing, has just been published by ISGS. Dr. Vassallo has taught writing to business and technical writers in corporate, academic, and government environments for over 20 years....

Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Stefan Fastis. Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. In the mid-1970s, I organized and ran the first official Scrabble Players Club in Manhattan. The...

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Andrew Solomon. The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. New York: Scribner, 2001. Andrew Solomon, in this well-documented, comprehensive book, offers a compellingly readable analysis and description of depression -- a disease that is...

The Firefly Visual Dictionary.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... The Firefly Visual Dictionary. Willowdale, Ontario, Canada: Firefly Books, 2002. A visual dictionary contains numerous pictures of items with their component parts labeled with the proper names for such parts. The Firefly Visual Dictionary...

Sober for Good: New Solutions for Drinking Problems--Advice From Those Who Succeeded.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Anne M. Fletcher. Sober for Good: New Solutions for Drinking Problems--Advice From Those Who Succeeded. New York: Houghton Muffin, 2001. Sober for Good, by the best-selling author and health journalist Anne M. Fletcher, is an important,...

Einstein, Picasso.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Arthur I. Miller. Einstein, Picasso. New York: Basic Books, 2001. In Einstein, Picasso, Arthur I. Miller tackles the question, "How did Einstein and Picasso in the early years of the twentieth century come to do the creative thinking that...

The Drug Problem: A New View Using the General Semantics Approach. (Books).(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Martin H. Levinson. The Drug Problem: A New View Using the General Semantics Approach. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2002. Congratulations to Martin H. Levinson, Ph.D., who has devoted his career to drug education and prevention, for...

Fifty years ago in ETC. (Retrospect).
December 22, 2002... Foreword to Special Issue on Information Theory Our readers will recall the Special Issue on Metalinguistics, ETC., IX, 161-240 (Spring 1952), which was entirely devoted to matters pertaining to those aspects of language which seem to mould...