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

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

Stewart W. Holmes. (Profile).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Stewart W. Holmes, who earned his Ph.D. in English at Yale, has taught students in preparatory schools and colleges and universities. He worked as editor and collaborator with authors of English textbooks and wrote English in Action...

Zen Haiku.(Poem)
March 22, 2002... Zen Haiku The full moon. Twigs reticulate the white disc. Chaos over order. In the fireplace tonight Flames flicker brightly. Little white moths, beware. ...

Fifteen Zen Tenets.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Tenet 1 The realities of life are most truly seen in everyday things and actions. Tenet 2 Everything exists according to its own nature. Our individual perceptions of worth, correctness, beauty, size, and value exist inside our...

The inner game of life.
March 22, 2002... THE TRIPLE MIND It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet, is it any more unusual to find grace in the texture and softly curled silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on... the arrangement of textures...

Blue ring around a white collar: an application of marginality.
March 22, 2002... Introduction ENTERING A GRADUATE PROGRAM directly following the completion of my Bachelor's degree was not completely understood by people in my home town. The stigma of "professional student" was felt. Even if getting a Masters degree...

Abstractions.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... There is no absolute knowledge and those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy. All information is imperfect. We have to treat it with humility. JACOB BRONOWSKI The tragedy of the casual mind...

A clone of your own.(Short Story)
March 22, 2002... DICTATOR MACK E. O'WALLY'S first thought as he awoke in a cold sweat that morning aboard his space craft was I hate clones. He'd recently launched a scheme to legalize private ownership of clones. What would happen if his disgusting secret,...

Why can't I stop correcting? Overcoming my resistance to changing how I teach.
March 22, 2002... Introduction ACCORDING TO the general semantics principle of "self-reflexiveness," humans can gain some measure of control over their impulses by observing their own behavior. When we can stand back and observe ourselves in action, there...

Glimpse spring 2002.(Brief Article)
March 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...

Correspondence.
March 22, 2002... TO THE EDITOR: I read in the February 10 New York Times, in an article on women and others in Afghanistan recommencing their educations, that the chief librarian of the University of Kabul (a man named Muhammad Sadiq Wadid) has made the...

A letter from the president of ISGS.
March 22, 2002... DEAR ISGS MEMBERS: I suspect that you share my belief that general semantics offers invaluable tools for making personal and professional choices, a practical "process for living and making decisions" that works. In these uncertain times,...

The Temple of Theory. (Metaphors in Action).
March 22, 2002... As a young academic, naturally I was concerned about how to succeed in my chosen field. Fortunately, I had a kindly mentor, who offered to show me the path to advancement in academe. One afternoon, we got in his car, and traveled down a road of...

Teaching self-reflection and meta-cognition. (Art and Technics).
March 22, 2002... How CAN WE DISPLAY the world of ideas around us, which shapes and affects our lives as surely as does a house, a threat, or a prize? Can you bring someone to the revelation: "These are my thoughts, not a common reality," and "Just because I...

Mark Twain's perceptual revision: using the structural differential to map change. (Practical Application of GS Formulations).
March 22, 2002... IN AN "IDEAL" WORLD, every educational institution would have at least one formal course in general semantics and would liberally saturate general semantics formulations across, over, under, and through the curriculum. Unfortunately, because we...

Snooping around the time-binding attic. (From the Archives).
March 22, 2002... THE "ARCHIVES" of the Institute of General Semantics contain three generations of history -- not only in terms of the institution and "the work" of general semantics, but also as a fascinating slice of 20th century American living. If you've...

Cigarettes: Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to Smoke. (Books).
March 22, 2002... Tara Parker-Pope. Cigarettes: Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to Smoke. New York: New Press, 2001. Cigarettes are the world's most conspicuous consumer product and arguably the biggest business success of the twentieth century. In her new...

Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading. (Books).
March 22, 2002... Naomi S. Baron. Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading. London: Routledge, 2000. I confess: I picked this book up just for the title. Email pervades every part of my life these days, some days to the extent...

Writing New York: A Literary Anthology. (Books).
March 22, 2002... Phillip Lopate, editor. Writing New York: A Literary Anthology. New York: Washington Square Press, 1998. Phillip Lopate, in the introduction to this anthology, states "Few cities have inspired as much great writing as New York, or indeed...

Fifty years ago in ETC. (Retrospect).
March 22, 2002... From the Iliad to the latest murder-mystery, nearly any work of fiction may be studied as an extended figure of speech, giving us understanding of our inner life by narrating outer events. If we may make the distinction at all, our inner life...

International GS Conference scheduled for November 2003. (News & Notes).(general semantics)
March 22, 2002... The next International General Semantics Conference will be held in 2003, from Friday, October 31, through Sunday, November 2. Titled "The Twelfth International Conference on General Semantics: Leading a Revolution in Human Evaluating...