Word: basic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...publications Richards employs psychological elements to study language; his theories have exerted immense influence on textual criticism. A concern for world literacy and the use of English as a basic implement of international technology and learning has led him in his more recent work away from literary criticism into the fields of education and semantic engineering...
...interested in Basic English...
Anyway that was the start of The Meaning of Meaning, and its definition chapter was to lead Ogden into inventing and working out Basic English. It is a curiously pin-pointed starting-point, a two hour conversation on definitions interrupted by a bats-wing gas-burner...
...growth and self-knowledge of the black audience. In today's theater there is more than ever, before a natural empathy between the black playwright and his black audience; there is no need for an exposition of "the problem," the presumption being that the audience, being black, shares certain basic assumptions with the playwright and the characters. He (the black playwright) is concerned with black people's relationships with each other, how they themselves perceive the assets and liabilities of the black experience in America...
...where they held one of the first planning sessions for the spurious Anarchy Designs or, as it is now known, H-R X. It was at this meeting that one of X's founders, a man who has since fled to New York to escape cultural persecution, formulated a basic X goal: to be misunderstood by the Press. Therefore, I would personally like to thank the CRIMSON for printing John G. Short's splendid melange of myth, error, and misinterpretation about H-R X. Randolph Boog First Hyperion Harvard-Radcliffe...