ETC.: A Review of General Semantics articles from March 1999

ETC.: A Review of General Semantics archives from March 1999

Applying learning to life: a theoretical framework in context.(psychologist Rachel Lauer's 'Roots of Knowing')
March 22, 1999... This paper places the educational framework of Rachel Lauer in the context of psychology, philosophy, and education. Lauer has developed a broad theoretical framework, as well as a pedagogy and curriculum, aimed at human development. Her work...

Silent night: non-verbal sex at the Galactic Cafe.(The Clone Chronicles part 7)(fiction re cyberspace)
March 22, 1999... Editor's note(2299): We who write history rarely question point of view. We claim omniscience - as though we know what only gods can know - giving credibility to our abstractions with the appropriate academi-babble. Therefore, it will come as...

Finding meaning.(interpretation of words and symbols)
March 22, 1999... This cartoon "clearly displays": * ugly racism * ugly and stupid Klan members * whatever the observer thinks When above appeared in the Toledo (Ohio) Blade, our local paper, on June 22, 1998, it set off a flood of angry...

World Wide Web discovery.(poem)
March 22, 1999... Michael Buchenroth A waxing quantity of electronically Published literature and datamines manifest Within the world wide web daily. Indeed with such realness - Rich electronic histories Sciences Geology URLs to JPLs satellite imagery from...

Understandings of media.(three images of media)
March 22, 1999... What are media? In a culture where TV is even more ubiquitous than indoor plumbing and there are more radios than people, this question seems too simple to deserve explicit response and debate. Yet our conceptions of media of communication,...

The war of the words: revamping operational terminology for UFOs.(unidentified flying object)
March 22, 1999... Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H. G. Wells, The Outline of History We have tried to analyze the most baffling phenomena while disregarding structural peculiarities of languages... ...

Number-English: a dictionary (any-az).
March 22, 1999... This, the third installment of a dictionary addressing the difficulty of hitching ordinary language to scientific language, completes the entries under the letter A. Difficulties in hitching the two languages arise in various ways. Some...

Why general semanticists should distrust computers.(Metaphors in Action)(computers oppose the main principles of general semantics)
March 22, 1999... Two important principles of general semantics are: 1. the map is not the territory and 2. we should avoid two-valued propositions (see Korzybski, 1948). The map is not the territory reminds us that the name is not the thing,...

Assumptions: identifying race.(GS at Large)(confusion re racial categories)
March 22, 1999... How many of you have found yourselves looking for a job recently? I have: Contacting some colleges about working as an adjunct (that's academese for "part time") counselor. Perhaps someone has asked you, too, very politely, to complete a...

Seventh and ninth grade writing exercises: candy, biographies, and E-prime.(Education)(writing and speaking English without employing the verb to be)
March 22, 1999... I have developed two writing lessons that students seem to enjoy. One involves candy. The other includes the writing of illustrated autobiographies. The Seventh Grade Class I begin my seventh grade writing exercise by giving each...

Developing Sanity in Human Affairs.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Susan Presby Kodish and Robert P. Holston, eds. Westport, CT., Greenwood Press, 1998. In 1995 the Eleventh International Interdisciplinary Conference on General Semantics was held at Hofstra University on Long Island, New York. The...

Working with Emotional Intelligence.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Daniel Goleman. New York: Bantam, 1998. Daniel Goleman's earlier book, Emotional Intelligence, added a new phrase to our vocabulary and suggested a different way to think about personal excellence. In it, he challenged the dominance of IQ...

The Fix.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Michael Massing. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Michael Massing points out that although hard core drug users, who he tells us are "disproportionately poor, unemployed, and members of minority groups," are only a fifth of total users,...

Eat the Rich.(Review)
March 22, 1999... P. J. O'Rourke. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998. Political humorist P. J. O'Rourke, whose best-seller Parliament of Whores attempted to explain the entire United States government, seeks to answer in this book a fundamental economic...

A Dangerous Profession: A Book About the Writing Life.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Frederick Busch. New York. St. Martin's Press, 1998. In this well written and very interesting two-part book Frederick Busch, the author of 21 other books, and a professor of literature at Colgate University, talks about what it is that...

Do you know how to listen?(Retrospect)(conscientious listening)
March 22, 1999... FIFTY YEARS AGO IN ETC We are engulfed by a sea of sound. Only the deaf are privileged to know the peace of utter stillness. Sound is so much with us that we perform the wonder of listening almost as unconsciously as the beasties afield....

The task of the listener.(Retrospect)(analysis of scepticism)
March 22, 1999... The word-manipulating professions have of necessity grown in importance with increasing economic interdependency in a technological world. The more industrialized society becomes, the more carefully must human effort be coordinated - and this...

Language of Politics: Studies in Quantitative Semantics.(Review)
March 22, 1999... In the introductory section of his book, Lasswell draws the distinction between symbols that are "credenda," or represent things to be believed, and those that are "miranda," which represent things to be admired. In application to the current...

My first seance.(Retrospect)(spiritualist seance)
March 22, 1999... Sirs: Somewhere in my browsing through the interesting books that have come my way through the Psychology Centre, I once read a paragraph which, although I cannot quote it word for word, said something like this: "Exercise of the imagination...