Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People feel weak and defeated. We need a hero so strong and so intelligent that nothing can stop him." The job of creating this giant was assigned to an unathletic and sketchily educated young writer named Lester Dent. Trained as a telegrapher, Dent was innocent of grammar ("of no value to we") and guilty of heinous cliches ("The warriors were certainly a chagrined lot"), but he could put out the prose at a Remington-wrecking rate. Under the pen name Kenneth Robeson, he knocked off a 60,000-word Doc Savage novel almost every month for nearly 15 years...
...unwilling observer is thrown into the role of a tiny mannequin in an architect's scale model. The low-rise section has the sinuousness and personality of a granite python, and the tower rises mute like an Aztec altar. Some people claim that architecture like this requires a new grammar of response; I think instead that Mather House almost demands that we abandon our way of seeing...
...arbitrary power to "academic priests who mediate between the faithful and the gods of privilege and power." It also makes education an impossibly scarce commodity. Illich calculates that "in the U.S. it would take $80 billion per year to provide what educators regard as equal treatment for all in grammar and high school, well over twice the $36 billion now being spent...
...inventor of general semantics. Korzybski was a Polish-born mathematician and physicist, part crank and part genius, who regarded his theory as a whole new science of life. Our language, argued Korzybski, does not reflect reality, and its structure does not correspond to the seen or unseen world. Its grammar, based on Aristotelian logic, implies primitive philosophical concepts tied to the prescientific past. All this leads to emotional disturbances and frustrations, known as semantic shock. Korzybski prescribed some mental tricks to guard against this disorder. Take, for instance, the old hit song: "Falling in love is wonderful...
Zero Absenteeism. The Illinois festival was only the tip of a jazz iceberg. From grad to grammar school, hot jazz is becoming the most popular thing since hot lunch. Even kindergartners and children in the first three grades are tapping their toes at Berkeley's Washington Elementary School, with rhythmic help from teachers like Saxophonist Bob Houlehan. In junior highs and high schools throughout the U.S., where old-fashioned swing over rock-rhythm sections is the vogue, an estimated 16,000 jazz bands are taking over from marching bands as an intramural way of life. Says Irving Bard, music...