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

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

IN THIS ISSUE.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... general semantics n pl but sing or pi in constr (1933): a doctrine and educational discipline intended to improve habits of response of human beings to their environment and one another esp. by training in the more critical use of words and...

THE PAIN IN SPRAIN ...(the physiology and psychology of pain)
June 22, 2001... BRUCE I. KODISH [*] WHY DOES IT HURT? That's probably a question many people ask themselves when they suffer from back, neck or other pain. In some ways it's not a very useful question to consider for very long since the 'why' often...

PROFILE.(introduction to semantics teacher and author Bruce Kodish)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Bruce I. Kodish, Ph.D., P.T., author of Back Pain Solutions: How to Help Yourself with Posture-Movement Therapy and Education, has worked as a physical therapist since 1981 in hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, orthopedic...

WHAT'S COOKING?(restaurant and cookery terminology)
June 22, 2001... BILL BRYSON [*] GOING TO A RESTAURANT is generally a discouraging experience for me because I always manage somehow to antagonize the waitress. This, of course, is something you never want to do because waitresses are among the relatively...

"THIS IS LIKE DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN" - Eight Types of Tautology.
June 22, 2001... MICHAEL MOORE [*] THOUGH INTRODUCED into propositional calculus at the end of the 19th century by the American logician Charles Peirce, tautology (literally "the same word") had its place among the better-known errors of rhetoric as early...

AT A LOSS FOR WORDS: The Desperate World of Adult Non-Readers.
June 22, 2001... MARTHA MCKINNEY [*] I HAVE SPENT my life surrounded by readers. The people I know and spend time with have no trouble finding the correct mental file folder in which to put a new concept. When they encounter a new word, they run for the...

NERDS? OR NUTS? POP CULTURE PORTRAYALS OF MATHEMATICIANS.
June 22, 2001... CARMEN M. LATTERELL [*] WHEN YOU THINK OF A MATHEMATICIAN, what image comes to mind? Come on, now, be honest! Do you picture a highly intelligent person? Do you picture a nerd? Do you envision a man, or do you see a woman? Popular culture...

THE AIMS AND TASKS OF GENERAL SEMANTICS: Implications of the Time-Binding Theory.(Reprint)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... S. I. HAYAKAWA [*] PART II IN ORDER TO make clear what I mean by the scientific orientation, let me contrast it with some of the prescientific and antiscientific orientations. If people do not have the attitudes of an earnest...

THE RIGHT TO LIFE?(Short Story)
June 22, 2001... PAUL DENNITHORNE J0HNSTON [*] IN THE LAST EPISODE, we left our heroes adrift in space, targets of an approaching bomb. The clone Pang Lawws and Clonemaster Dolly Darling were marooned on asteroid 2202 Bluto as it broke apart. Their...

SOME BASIC IDEAS OF GENERAL SEMANTICS.
June 22, 2001... Introduction Definition GENERAL SEMANTICS can be defined in many ways. But certainly there is emphasis upon applying modern concepts of science to our skills of processing experiences. Improved human relations and better mental...

GLIMPSE: 1977-1987.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... In 1977, Russell Joyner, then Executive Director of ISGS, had an idea for a new kind of general semantics publication. He wanted to produce a short, easy-to-read newsletter that used stories from the media to illustrate the meaning and use of...

Glimpse 2001.(various articles on semantics and word use)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... 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...

MEMBERSHIP PAGE.
June 22, 2001... Travels in China and Japan ETC author, lecturer, therapist, and trainer Dr. Risa Kaparo traveled to China with her daughter, Deanna, last October. Dr. Kaparo lectured on the system of Somalogics[SM] to the faculty at Dalien Medical School....

TELEVISION AS A DEEP METAPHOR IN DECONSTRUCTION.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... RAYMOND GOZZI, JR. [*] Deconstruction was one of academe's biggest hits of the 1980s. It caused torpid professors all over the academy to sit up and take notice. It generated apologetics and explications in vast quantities. Its superstar...

AN INVENTORY OF HUMAN RELATIONS.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... ALFRED FLEISHMAN [*] IN MOST BUSINESSES, an inventory is made periodically of merchandise or assets of one kind or another. Can this be done with human relations or human communication? Management people should be able to take a human...

SWALLOWS RETURN TO CAPISTRANO, SORT OF.(variety of article on bird migrations, drug evaluations, commemorative stamps, and motion picture criticism)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... THERE'S A LONGTIME well-established image that sky-darkening hordes of swallows descend on Mission San Juan Capistrano in California every St. Joseph's Day in March after a 7,000 mile flight from their winter home in Argentina. That image was...

COMMUNICATION SEMINAR IN WALNUT CREEK.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... NORA MILLER [*] ON THE FIRST WEEKEND in May, 2001, I attended a seminar on Business Communication and Intercultural Communication presented by ISGS President Dr. Charles Russell in Walnut Creek, California. The International Society for...

Philosophical Practitioner Will Present the 2001 Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Dr. Lou Marinoff, author of the popular philosophical practice selfhelp book, Plato, Not Prozac will present the next Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture on November 9, 2001, in New York City, sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics. The...

Presentations in Italy.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Dr. Charles Russell, President of the International Society for General Semantics, gave two lectures in Italy this June. "My presentations in Naples and Rome went well, I think, and perhaps exposed some Italian professionals to general...

GS at Festival of Books.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... GS instructors and authors Susan and Bruce Kodish report that they took a booth at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books representing their company, Extensional Publishing, and the Institute of General Semantics. Susan Kodish noted,...

The New York Society for GS.(general semantics)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Author and GS instructor Milton Dawes gave an all-day presentation, A GS Smorgasbord: A Spring Celebration of Our Organism-as-a-whole, to members of the New York Society for General Semantics in New York City on May 19. Dawes described the...

New Board Member for ISGS.(International Society for General Semantics)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Nora Miller, of Portland, Oregon, recently became a member of the Board of the International Society for General Semantics. Miller, who works as information systems manager for a small energy-oriented government agency, said, "While getting my...

The San Francisco Chapter.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... At the July meeting of the San Francisco Chapter of ISGS, members discussed cryogenics suspension, storing the "deceased" in liquid nitrogen with a view to reviving them in a future in which medical science can resolve their health problems....

Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudo-Science, Superstition, and Bogus Notions of Our Time.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... Michael Shermer. Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudo-Science, Superstition, and Bogus Notions of Our Time. New York: MJF Books, 1997. The answer to why people believe weird things is spelled out in chapter three of this book, titled...

Inevitable illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule our Minds.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini. Inevitable illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule our Minds. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994. Imagine that the United States must prepare for the outbreak of a rare disease that scientists estimate will result...

Battling the Inner Dummy: The Craziness of Apparently Normal People.(Review)
June 22, 2001... David L. Weiner with Gilbert M. Hefter. Battling the inner Dummy: The Craziness of Apparently Normal People. Amherst, New York: Prometheus, 1999. Freud believed that the "id," a name he gave to the brain's center of instinctual action, has...

FIFTY YEARS AGO IN ETC.
June 22, 2001... It may seem curious that a person whose whole professional effort is devoted to psychotherapy should be interested in problems of communication. What relationship is there between providing therapeutic help to individuals with emotional...