ETC.: A Review of General Semantics articles from September 2000

ETC.: A Review of General Semantics archives from September 2000

EPISTEMOLOGICAL BACKGROUND FOR KNOWING AND NAMING.
September 22, 2000... WILLIAM J. WILLIAMS [*] "In certain ways, the creation of special subjects of study and division of labor was an important step forward. It enabled us to reduce our difficulties to manageable proportions. Nevertheless, the ability to...

WOMEN IN COUNTRY MUSIC VIDEOS.
September 22, 2000... JANELLE WILSON [*] "Country music videos offer a space for contemporary female artists to more visually and openly challenge that which their predecessors challenged in their time -- the traditional, confining gender roles that dominant...

LOGIQUE A LA FRANCAISE.
September 22, 2000... The excerpt on French logic that follows comes from Polly Platt's French or Foe? Getting the Most out of Visiting, Living and Working in France, 2nd ed. (Cincinnati. Krehbiel, 1998), pp. 204-20S. The editors recognize, please understand, that...

THE ETC ADVISOR: Practical Wisdom from Will Rogers.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Don't squat with your spurs on. Good judgment comes from experience, and most experience comes from bad judgment. Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in. If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take...

SOME THOUGHTS ON THE WWJD? (WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?) BRACELET.
September 22, 2000... GARDNER GATELEY [*] THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, there are thousands of people, including unknown numbers of children, who wear a small bracelet inscribed with WWJD? ("What Would Jesus Do?"). I became aware of this when my grandson wore one of...

ABSTRACTIONS.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... A single word can put you on the right track, a second disturbs you, and at the third you panic. With the fourth, utter confusion reigns. The logos once meant action as well; it has become paralysis. What's a word? Whatever is not lived with...

THE OEDIPUS HEX.
September 22, 2000... PAUL DENNITHORNE JOHNSTON [*] NOW, AT LONG LAST, the mission to save Earth was truly underway. Dictator Mack E. O'Wally had ordered up the volunteers: the young clone Pang Lawws, Galactic cafe owner Dolly Darling, twin sisters Reggie and...

MEMBERSHIP PAGE.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Seeking Information We enjoy hearing from our members, including those who have a long-standing interest in general semantics, such as Nora Miller of Oregon, who writes: My study of general semantics started in 1976 when a psychology...

INTERVIEW.(Interview)
September 22, 2000... D. DAVID BOURLAND, JR. As this issue goes to press, the editors received word that ISGS President D. David Bourland, Jr., died on October 12, 2000, at his home in Wichita Falls, Texas, of a heart related illness. We extend sympathy to Mr....

ZOMBIE COMPUTERS.
September 22, 2000... RAYMOND GOZZI, JR. [*] SOMETHING STRANGE started happening to the computers at Yahoo!, an Internet portal and search engine company, on Monday morning, Feb. 7, 2000. The huge complex of computers started slowing down. Instead of loading...

PROFILE.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Dr. Raymond Gozzi, Jr., has written the Metaphors in Action feature in ETC for ten years. He has authored two books on language: New Words and a Changing American Culture (University of South Carolina Press, 1990), and The Power of Metaphor in...

POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AND THE THALAMIC/CORTICAL PAUSE.
September 22, 2000... ROD GIBSON [*] AS A COUNSELOR and trainee psychotherapist, I've found Korzybski's thalamic/cortical model an excellent introduction to the subject of brain functions, and have used variants on the "thalamic/cortical pause" for treating...

THE MAN-MADE MILLENNIUM.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... GREGG HOFFMANN [*] NOW THAT the Y2K bug has passed without taking any major bites, the soothsayers have moved on to predictions for the new millennium. Some predict the 21st Century will lead to revolutionary changes in environmental...

EDUCATORS USING GENERAL SEMANTICS.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... CONTINUING in the tradition established by the late Mary Morain, ISGS VP for Membership, and continuing to build upon the data base established by former VP for Development Peter Christopher, we have continued to provide our annual g.s....

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Malcolm Gladwell. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Boston: Little Brown, 2000. Malcolm Gladwell, a staff writer for the New Yorker, says fads are not really fads at all but are illustrations of what he calls...

Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Cindy S. Aron. Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Vacationing in America began as a privilege of the early nineteenth-century elites -- southern planters and wealthy...

Mr. Phillips.(Review)
September 22, 2000... John Lanchester. Mr. Phillips. New York: Putnam, 2000. Mr. Phillips is a middle-aged, mid-level accounting executive who has been married for almost thirty years and has two children. One Friday morning he is summarily sacked, through no...

FIFTY YEARS AGO IN ETC.
September 22, 2000... Finally, I have a practical suggestion to leave with you, and then I shall be ready to conclude my remarks. I think we can understand the person on the other side of the desk somewhat better if we will develop an ability which the old western...