ETC.: A Review of General Semantics articles from June 1996

ETC.: A Review of General Semantics archives from June 1996

The joy of words: confessions of a verbaholic.
June 22, 1996... I LOVE WORDS. You can get high on champagne, intoxicate yourself in a beautiful sunset, soar with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, or surrender to the ecstasy of crepe suzettes. I get drunk on words. Sometimes. Not just any old words. The...

A general semantics approach to clinical supervision with drug prevention counselors.
June 22, 1996... I am the Assistant Director of PROJECT SHARE, a 12 month Kindergarten through ninth grade New York City school-based drug prevention program serving over 26,000 students, teachers, parents, and other residents of Community School District 30,...

Questioning the question: the Quebec referendum.
June 22, 1996... "Do you agree that Quebec should become sovereign after having made a formal offer to Canada for a new economic and political partnership, within the scope of the bill respecting the future of Quebec and of the agreement signed on June 12, 1995?"...

Pastor future? A re-formulation of Ortega's question. (author Jose Ortega Y Gasset)
June 22, 1996... Ortega on the Past In The Revolt of the Masses, Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1) described a game played in the nineteenth century "literary salons." Cultured ladies and domesticated poets would ask one another the question: "In which age would you...

Do words and the rest of our behavior affect each other? A critical response to 'The Language Instinct.'
June 22, 1996... In his popular recent book The Language Instinct, the MIT professor Steven Pinker claims we produce language as spiders spin webs, as the result of some instinct. But spiders spin webs alone, without first needing to see another web; as Pinker...

Problem solving with general semantics.
June 22, 1996... Consciously or unconsciously all of us solve problems. We could solve them more effectively if we increase our awareness of what we do. In this article I discuss how you can use general-semantics formulations, along with modern problem solving...

Bernard E. Witkin. (former International Society for General Semantics Executive Director)(Obituary)
June 22, 1996... Bernard Witkin died at the age of 91, at his home in Berkeley, on December 23, 1995. His membership and interest in ISGS date back to the Hayakawa days, and he and his wife Alba have remained over the years among our most generous and consistent...

Repositioning general semantics.
June 22, 1996... This paper presents fourteen steps leading to five specific suggestions on how we can usefully reposition general semantics. Before starting on that, however, I must first fend off a comfortable, possibly even a cherished identification. In our...

The fable of the electric maps and the mutating territory.
June 22, 1996... Once upon a time there was a territory. And people lived in the territory, quite happily. They had maps, oral and written, which described the different boundaries of the territory. They had time to study their written maps, and a representative...

The idiom experience.
June 22, 1996... Teaching semantics may seem like a long row to hoe or five miles of mud road but with experience it don't take long to curry a pony and have as much fun as a barrel of monkeys. In my semantics/linguistics class I use rural Midwestern idioms of...

A general semantics glossary. (neuro-linguistic feedback)(part 14)
June 22, 1996... neuro-linguistic feedback. Korzybski came across the term "feedback" in late 1948. (1) The term dates from around 1915 when it was used in the noun phrase "acoustic feedback" related to problems in audio systems, especially loudspeakers. It was...

Executive Blues: Down and Out in Corporate America.
June 22, 1996... Executive Blues details the job searches of G. J. Meyer, a middle-aged public relations executive, who was "outplaced" (fired) by two major corporations in the early nineteen nineties. Although he had a string of unblemished career successes,...

To Renew America.
June 22, 1996... Newt Gingrich says that Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History and Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy are the pivotal works that focused his attention on the fate of civilizations. Toynbee's thesis, known as "challenge and response," argues that...

The Road Ahead.
June 22, 1996... "There is never a reliable map for unexplored territory, but we can learn important lessons from the creation and evolution of the $120 billion computer industry." And Bill Gates, who made the above statement in the foreword to The Road Ahead,...

Managing in a Time of Great Change.
June 22, 1996... Peter Drucker has been called the "godfather" of modern management. For the past fifty years he has been a teacher and advisor to senior managers in business, human services organizations, and government. He has written over twenty books on...

Manhood in America: A Cultural History.
June 22, 1996... In 1953 Simone de Beauvoir said, "A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the particular situation of the human male." Bad prediction. Michael Kimmel has written five volumes on men's lives including his latest Manhood in America....