Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general reaction to the plan was understandably cool. Some of the U.S. press felt that the Quakers, in their earnest search for a true realism based on the possibility of evoking the goodness in man, had been unrealistically premature. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "All men are not yet Quakers; if they were, we might more easily repose our faith in one another's virtue and good will. In the meantime, we seem fated to base our national policies on the sorrowful facts that it takes one to make a war, two to make a peace...
...born Count Alfred Korzybski has been preaching that if men only used words accurately, they would begin to think accurately, and the world would be that much better off. Last week, some 250 of Korzybski's disciples gathered at the University of Denver for the third Congress on General Semantics (and the first since 1941). Their big question: "Have we made any progress since the last congress...
Most thought they had. Korzybski's Institute of General Semantics, founded in Chicago in 1938, now had connections with 15 universities, a mailing list of 10,000. But the egg-bald old Count himself seemed depressed at the thought of what still had to be accomplished. "We are all products of a civilization," he said, "which emphasizes always black or white, hot or cold, day or night. Always it is either-or, where more-or-less is a bette explanation of the facts." The semantic outlook was "frankly hopeless." The world was in such a state that even...
Silent Partner. Sir William is the undisputed boss of all the commercial aspects of Anglo-Iranian; only in strategic matters can he be voted down by Lord Alanbrooke, wartime Chief of the Imperial General Staff, who represents the government on Anglo-Iranian's board...
...first-half earnings began to come in, they showed the expected drop, in profits from 1948, when inflated prices were at their peak. But they still looked healthy. The General Electric Co., which had been among the first big companies to cut prices and had already felt the sales slump in household appliances, was possibly a bellwether of how good "normal" might be. G.E.'s President Charles Wilson reported a second-quarter net of $19.8 million, down 32% from the same 1948 period. However, profit was more than 100% above G.E.'s earnings of ten years...