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

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

In This Issue.
September 22, 2001... Over the years, studies have demonstrated the benefits of using general semantics in daily life. In A General Semantics Approach to Reducing Student Alienation, Dr. Martin H. Levinson reports that such benefits "include increased critical...

A General Semantics Approach to Reducing Student Alienation.
September 22, 2001... Martin H. Levinson (*) THE DECADE OF THE 1970s is perhaps best remembered for the resignation of an American president and the ending of an unpopular war. But it was also a period of historically high levels of youthful drug abuse. One...

Profile.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Dr. Martin H. Levinson has been the book review editor for ETC since 1996. Besides writing book reviews, he has also written articles for ETC, the General Semantics Bulletin, the Verbal Level (the newsletter of the New York Society for General...

September 11, 2001 -- Wizen Maps Collided.
September 22, 2001... Charles G. Russell (*) "I can't believe my eyes!" Millions of people in the United States and other countries stared at their televisions in disbelief, trying to make sense of what they saw. Some became fearful of "what comes next,"...

The Word "is" The Thing: The "Kotodama" Belief in Japanese Communication.
September 22, 2001... Kazuya Hara (*) PART I In interpersonal communication studies, the bywords are relationship and messages (Knapp, Miller, & Fudge, 1994). Zarefsky (1993) emphasizes that the concern in the discipline of communication is to explore "the...

Abstractions.
September 22, 2001... Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proofs. CARL SAGAN Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. BERTRAND RUSSELL I have seen in...

Today Never Happened Before. (The Clone Chronicles Installment Seventeen).(Short Story)
September 22, 2001... Paul Dennithorne Johnston (*) THE CLONE PANG LAWWS awoke feeling hungover. His protectors called it gravity sickness. He didn't like Earth. He felt heavy and stupid here. He wanted to see "outdoors" but they wouldn't let him. Dictator...

Glimpse Fall 2001.
September 22, 2001... NORA MILLER, EDITOR 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...

Motivating Students: Evoking Transformative Learning and Growth.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2001... Roben Torosyan (*) Keywords: Consciousness Development, College Teaching and Learning, Critical Reflection, Critical Pedagogy, General Semantics, Thinking and Writing, Student Development Abstract: This study examines how 14 students...

Upward Stream: A Haiku Quintet.(Poem)
September 22, 2001... 1. frayed, soiled shoelaces salt-stained, polish-caked stitching my feet stay naked 2. naked, looking deeper the white thread through my blue jeans still fades to blue 3. more buttons than holes ...

Art, Life. and Reality: General Semantics and Definitions.
September 22, 2001... Bill Petkanas (*) AT THE HEART of teaching general semantics is the irksome question of the relationship between language and reality. Almost a century ago, Bertrand Russell asked, "... if the reality is not what appears, have we any means...

E-Prime as a Revision Strategy: A simple, systematic editing technique offers access to dynamics of language ordinarily subliminal.
September 22, 2001... Daniel Zimmerman (*) IN 1992, I LEARNED ABOUT E-PRIME -- a dialect of English using no forms of the verb to be -- as a technique to clarify thinking. Looking through drafts and final copies of my own prose -- papers, news articles,...

Broken Stereotypes: The Many Faces of Michael and Ernest. (Membership Page).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... To ease tensions between the public and police, New York Police Department officer Michael Fandal would pull a miniature globe from his pocket and say, "It's a small world." ISGS Member Michael Fandal, who recently retired from the police...

Dinosauras. (Metaphors in Action).
September 22, 2001... Raymond Gozzi Jr (*) WE ARE TOLD that dinosaurs are extinct. However, they are alive and well in our popular culture. Mainstream scientists also get a lot of mileage out of dinosaurs. And now dinosaurs have a new career as a popular...

Institute of General Semantics. (News & Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... The Institute of General Semantics will sponsor a Philosophical Roots of General Semantics seminar, on January 19-21, 2002, in Wimberley, Texas. With instructors Bruce Kodish and Homer Moore, students will apply general semantics to explore the...

New York Society for General Semantics. (News & Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... The New York Society for General Semantics is again sponsoring a lecture series at the Albert Ellis Institute in Manhattan. Ron Gross will give a presentation on Socrates on December 6, 2001, and Neil Postman will give a talk in January, 2002.

Australian General Semantics Society. (News & Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... The Australian General Semantics Society meets in the Sydney area. Activities this year included: January, a picnic; February, seminar based on AGS founder Laurie Cox's new book "Self Management in Difficult Situations"; March, April, and...

Anatomy of Striptease. (News & Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... ETC author and ISGS member Katherine Liepe-Levinson's new book about striptease, Strip Show: Performances of Gender and Desire will be out in January, 2002. Liepe-Levinson spent more than a decade researching heterosexual female and male...

Talk Show. (News & Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... ISGS Director Dr. Bill Pemberton hosted a talk show, "The World According to Dr. Bill," on radio station KFNX, Phoenix, Arizona. From his office in Mill Valley, California, Pemberton ran four shows in August and September. He discussed his...

Mathsemantics News. (News & Notes).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... A mathsemantics workshop for elementary school teachers took place in Frostburg, Maryland, on August 21, 2001, followed by a mathsemantics workshop for high-school teachers of English and mathematics two days later. Based on materials turned...

Ruth Ralph. (News & Notes).(Obituary)
September 22, 2001... Longtime semanticist, member of ISGS and IGS, Dr. Ruth Ralph, died on Wednesday, August 1, 2001. Dr. Ralph was a charter member of the Washington Area Secular Humanists (WASH) and served on the WASH Board of Directors for many years. Actively...

'Concrete' Examples Bring GS to Life. (Science and Sanity Seminar).(General Semantics)
September 22, 2001... Paul Dennithorne Johnston (*) HOW DOES a scientific and 'mathematical' orientation lead to sanity? These and other issues became clearer for me at a Science and Sanity Seminar, sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics, in Pasadena,...

Back Pain Solutions: How to Help Yourself With Posture-Movement Therapy and Education. (Books).
September 22, 2001... Bruce I. Kodish is a veteran physical therapist and co-author with Susan Presby Kodish of Drive Yourself Sane: Using the Uncommon Sense of General Semantics. In Back Pain Solutions, Bruce Kodish provides many practical ideas and solutions for...

The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life. (Books).
September 22, 2001... Gene D. Cohen, a world-renowned psychiatrist and respected international authority on aging and creativity, has provided in this book many examples of individuals who have maximized their potential in the second half of life. It turns out that...

Plato Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems. (Books).
September 22, 2001... Socrates asserted, "The unexamined life is not worth living." Lou Marinoff, in Plato Not Prozac!, suggests philosophy as the examining instrument. Marinoff, the president of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association and a...

Fifty Years Ago in Etc. (Retrospect).
September 22, 2001... METALINGUISTICS The term "metalinguistics" was devised to cover aspects of linguistic science dealing with the relation of linguistic behavior (language) to other human behavior. It presupposes the thorough formal analysis of a...