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IN THIS ISSUE
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... LIKE STORIES, MOVIES, NOVELS, AND PLAYS, real life is filled with cliffhangers that keep us on our toes. GS formulations can help us evaluate our cliffhanger moments more effectively so we can move ever onward. On our cover we present a work titled "Cliffhangers" by Katherine ...
THE TECHNOLOGY OF STORY AND HUMAN SURVIVAL AS A SPECIES(?)
Jul 01, 2008; Liepe-Levinsonn, Katherine ... Note: Parts of this essay were presented for the Alfred Korzybski Memorial Conference 2007 at Fordham University Lincoln Center New York City and for the New York State Communications Association annual conference in Kerhonkson New York 2007. A version of this essay was also published online in ...
SOME PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS ON "MIND THE GAP"
Jul 01, 2008; Trivedi, Devkumar ... "MIND THE GAP," the words spoken at the underground railway station in London on a loudspeaker repeatedly were clear, loud, slow, and cautionary. Old railway cars were heavy, broad, aligned with platforms, and noisy. New cars were sleek, light, less noisy, and because of narrower width, left a ...
DEVELOPING THE EXPERIENCE OF GROUP MIND*
Jul 01, 2008; Hauck, Ben ... Is the human mind [ ...] like a dark cavern (needing illumination)? A muscle (needing exercise)? A vessel (needing filling)? A lump of clay (needing shaping)? A garden (needing cultivation)? Or, as so many say today, is it like a computer that processes data? Neil Postman, The End of ...
GENERAL SEMANTICS AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Jul 01, 2008; Levinson, Martin H ... IN 1995, DANIEL GOLEMAN, a science reporter for the New York Times, published the international bestseller Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More than IQ. The impetus for the book was an article he chanced upon in a small academic journal by two psychologists, John D. Mayer and Peter ...
THE HARLOT MEETS THE GENERAL
Jul 01, 2008; Peterson, Valerie ... ONE DAY, a close friend of mine began speaking of general semantics, a discipline with which I was not acquainted. The arguments of its proponents sounded very familiar to me, even though I hadn't heard them expressed in quite that way before. "The map is not the territory." Yes, yes, quite ...
WORDS THAT REPLACE THOUGHT
Jul 01, 2008; Zachek, Thomas ... Reprinted with permission from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel LANGUAGE IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT. But it is so easily misused, especially when hooked to ideas that somebody is trying to get us to believe in. When crusaders or politicians use loaded words, hold onto your ...
SUBPRIME ABSTRACTIONS
Jul 01, 2008; Griffin, Mike ... THE RECENT FINANCIAL LOSSES IN THE U.S. CREDIT MARKET associated with home mortgages have received a great deal of media attention. Among others, Merrill Lynch wrote off $23 billion in assets while Citigroup wrote off $24 billion (Stewart, 2008b). This is, to paraphrase an old aphorism, some ...
DATING THE EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY OF QUINTILIAN
Jul 01, 2008; Vassallo, Philip ... THE GENERAL SEMANTICS DATING TOOL involves attaching dates to our evaluations as a reminder that change occurs over time. It also can help us to reevaluate past ideas and events in light of current circumstances. Looking two millennia into the past at the work of Quintilian proves that some of ...
MANIFESTO
Jul 01, 2008; Philbrook, Simon ... it is the poet, it is the poet who should reach out, shout, as loud as sudden death with every breath to the reader, it is the poet who should share, dare to reveal, steal yourself for ...
BUCKY THE TIME-BINDING BEAVER
Jul 01, 2008; Levinson, Martin H ... [This chapter from Levinson 's Practical Fairy Tales for Everyday Living (iUniverse, 2007) demonstrates that human progress occurs because we can pass information across generations.] ONCE UPON A TIME, in the far-off hamlet of Beaverton, Oregon, a lovely little community situated midway ...
CRAFT ALONE
Jul 01, 2008; Stenslien, Annette ... What pulse lies in dry linear lines, though in perfect form perhaps, without life's blood to move would crumble and crack under the arid charge of time [Author ...
THE PEN, THE SWORD
Jul 01, 2008; Ledger, Samantha ... in times now passed - moments - of crisis the black wall shrouding; wrapped tight in suffocation the blade of truth - the weapon freed - snapped clean from plastic case and two bit wrapping - clenched between thumb ...
NOTHING TO DESCRIBE EXCEPT A BLANK PAGE
Jul 01, 2008; McCrea, Neil ... This is the poem I could never write Full to the brim with casual blasphemies witty enough to be easily forgiven Written in painfully purple poesy saved by the will imposed upon the word well received by critics well read by blue-collar ...
QUOTATIONS FROM THE WORLD OF NULL-A
Jul 01, 2008; Nosnivel, Nitram ... After reading Science and Sanity, A.E. Van Vogt decided to write a work of science fiction titled The World of Null-A which was published in book form 1948. The volume has since gone on to become an important part of the science fiction literary canon and it has attracted many people to general ...
From the Institute of General Semantics Website: FAQS
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... 1. What is general semantics? There are as many different ways to answer this question as there are to respond to "What is psychology?" or "What is behavior?" In fact, there are so many they've been collected into a compendium of definitions that are available here. Here is one: ...
TREATMENT FOR HARDENING OF THE CATEGORIES
Jul 01, 2008; Miller, Nora ... Comedian Steven Wright was confronted by a friend saying "Your socks don't match!" Steven responded "Yes they do. I was going by thickness." When my current partner, a composer and artist, came to live with me, he immediately started treating my hardened categories. One day, I ...
From the Institute of General Semantics Website: DROPPING NAMES
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... A notable, if somewhat eclectic, group of individuals has crossed paths with general semantics over the years. Here are a few names you might recognize. Other names can be found on the IGS website by clicking on "Archives of Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lectures." Steve Alien, author, ...
DREAMS OF COMPLETION AND AN ANCIENT SOLUTION
Jul 01, 2008; Gozzi, Raymond Jr ... All my life I have had an intellectual dream-that all knowledge could be unified into one complete whole. Why could it be unified? Because our lives have underlying patterns, and we can come to know them to some extent. The patterns of our lives are nested within the patterns of others' lives, ...
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Basics of Science
Jul 01, 2008; Levinson, Martin H ... Natalie Angier. The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Basics of Science. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. A National Science Board report recently showed that the United States ranks 17th among the nations surveyed in the share of 18-to-24-year olds who earn natural science and engineering ...