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

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

THE FREEDOM OF THOUGHT.(creative thinking)(Excerpt)
March 22, 2001... ANDREAS TEUBER [*] I MUST CONFESS I am made anxious by teaching awards, suggesting, as they do, that teaching is an activity that a teacher might develop and cultivate independently of and apart from the mastery of a subject. Good...

Foreword to THINKING CREATICALLY.(Steve Allen)(Excerpt)
March 22, 2001... STEVE ALLEN [*] ABOUT 1960, I began receiving letters congratulating me on being a general semanticist. Since I had no idea what a general semanticist was, I began some casual reading in the field by consulting the works of Alfred...

Haiku I.(Poem)
March 22, 2001... A map can get you From here to there -- but what if Your map has no 'there'? Here a doe-eyed cow. No, here shoe leather and steaks. Cow one ain't cow two. Particles jitter. Skin reacts to growing warmth. I...

MATHSEMANTICS RESEARCH.(Column)
March 22, 2001... THE MATHSEMANTIC MONITOR [*] RESEARCH NOW SEEMS POISED to start in earnest to fill the great academic gap between English and mathematics. If you're a regular reader of this series, you'll understand the Mathsemantic Monitor's glee in...

Haiku II.(Poem)
March 22, 2001... See, the rose 'is' red. But what of stem and thorn? Does 'red' say it 'all'? See, the rose 'is' red. But moonlight alters the hue - Oops, the rose 'is' gray. See, the rose 'is' red. But passing time brings...

FIGURING THE ENVIRONMENT AS ENEMY: The Fight with "Implacable Indifference".(semantic usage)
March 22, 2001... DONNA MENDELSON [*] A NUMBER OF METAPHORS for land, place, and Earth have attracted the attention of critics who concentrate on demonstrating the damage done by particular metaphors. Annette Kolodny has written about what is wrong with...

TEACHING BUSINESS COMMUNICATION.
March 22, 2001... CHARLES G. RUSSELL [*] "I know the important stuff" MY FOUR DECADES OF TEACHING the fundamentals of human communication have taught me to anticipate some common student attitudes to the subject. They feel differently than they do about...

ABSTRACTIONS.(quoteations)
March 22, 2001... Seek simplicity and distrust it. ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country. SUN TZU, THE ART OF WAR If a thing can be done -- why do it? ...

A BETTER MEGAMA CHINE.(humorous science fiction)(Short Story)
March 22, 2001... PAUL DENNITHORNE JOHNSTON [*] Dissenting Opinion The Editors of these chronicles do not necessarily agree with one another on the methodology of history. Some hold the sociological perspective. However, the Editor of this Opinion...

THE AIMS AND TASKS OF GENERAL SEMANTICS: Implications of the Time-Binding Theory (Part I).(philosophy of science)(Transcript)
March 22, 2001... S. I. HAYAKAWA [*] HE AIMS AND TASKS of general semantics, however numerous they may seem to be to the many students of the subject who are busy applying its formulations to the sciences, to humanistic studies, and to practical affairs in...

CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS: With a Little Planning You Can Save a Lot of Taxes.
March 22, 2001... ROBERT A. STEINER [*] Tax Planning NOW IS THE TIME to start thinking about your income taxes for year 2001. Early in 2001 you necessarily have to think about your income taxes for the year 2000. Do your homework. Assemble your...

THE CROSSWORD PUZZLE AS METAPHOR FOR READING THE NEWS.
March 22, 2001... RAYMOND GOZZI JR. [*] THE CROSSWORD PUZZLE usually sits next to the comics in our newspapers. It is often separated from the rest of the page by a border, and given a title, something like "Today's Crossword." We tend to assume that this...

LEARNING BY DOING AT A TIME-BINDING WEEKEND.(semantics workshop)
March 22, 2001... NORA MILLER [*] AS AN ARDENT but geographically isolated student of general semantics, I enrolled for the Institute of General Semantics A Weekend of Time-Binding[TM] workshop as soon as I heard about it. This year, the Institute launched...

The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins -- Revised and Expanded Edition.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Robert Hendrickson. The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins -- Revised and Expanded Edition. New York: Checker Books, 2000. William Safire called the first edition of Word and Phrase Origins, "A feast for phrase...

The Sound Bite Society: Television and the American Mind.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Jeffrey Scheuer. The Sound Bite Society: Television and the American Mind. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999. This thoughtful and provocative book argues that television, with its brief sound bites and uncomplicated messages, is a...

Bobos in Paradise.(Review)
March 22, 2001... David Brooks. Bobos in Paradise. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Forty years ago it wasn't that difficult to distinguish between the "bourgeoisie" and the "counterculture." The former was comprised of individuals who worked for large...

Self-Management in Difficult Situations.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Lawrence Cox. Self-Management in Difficult Situations. Lawrence Cox, 2000. The author's informal and friendly style, along with many examples and case studies, make this an inviting book for readers who want practical advice on how to...

FIFTY YEARS AGO IN ETC.
March 22, 2001... The Social Genesis of language makes possible (as George H. Mead has shown in Mind, Self, and Society) a complex type of experience which he has called "taking the role of the other." Through language one can symbolize times and places other...

REPLY TO PROFESSOR BURES.(S. I. HAYAKAWA)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... To begin with, I should like to express my gratitude to Professor Bures for his thoughtful reading of my book and for the cooperative and scientific spirit of his critique. He is right in saying that at present there is imperfect understanding...

THE POWER OF METAPHOR IN THE AGE OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Raymond Gozzi, Jr., Associate Professor in the Park School of communication at Ithaca College, writes the Metaphors in Action column for ETC. Some of his fascinating and informative ETC articles appear in this book. The all-new first part...

Mathsemantics MAKING NUMBERS TALK SENSE.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The language of mathematics seeks precision -- only one interpretation. Everyday language such as English, colorful, emotive, and artistic, allows many interpretations. What happens when you try to use these conflicting languages together?...

A GENERAL-SEMANTICS GLOSSARY: Pula's Guide for the Perplexed.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Since the publication of Science and Sanity almost 70 years ago, general semantics students and teachers could have benefited from a book of clear but rigorous explanations of general semantics formulations and terminology. Robert Pula, former...

CULTURE, LANGUAGE AND BEHAVIOR.(Review)
March 22, 2001... An important theme of this book is that language and cognition combine with direct experiences and contribute to "indirect perception." Our culture, language, education, values, and experience act as filters of our direct experiences, which...

THINKING CREATICALLY.(Review)
March 22, 2001... A Systematic, Interdisciplinary Approach to Creative-Critical Thinking Kenneth G. Johnson, Ph.D., devised the term Creatical Thinking to describe a combination of creative and critical thinking. Dr. Johnson, Emeritus Professor of Mass...