Word: hayakawas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Three cheers for S. I. Hayakawa [July 13] and the Anti-Digit Dialing League. ROBERT E. FORMAN aliases: 137-806 (bank account number) 473-20-6385 (social security number) 655-728-245 (hospital insurance number) 18-232-926 (life insurance policy number) 221836 } (various 5-2472 } credit 643-701-443-6 } account numbers) Oshkosh...
...possible that the phone company could come to a compromise with its A.D.D.L. users (and the rest of the human race) by simply using three letters whether they spell words or not? S. I. Hayakawa's number, 4 billion something or other, could read 415LUG2301, with each subscriber employing his own mnemonic to remember the letters, such as Loused Up Good...
Fitting Machines. The A.D.D.L. was born a month ago when a want ad by angry San Francisco Organizer Carl V. May rallied a band of bitter anti-digit men, including famed Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa of San Francisco State College. Soon San Francisco lapels were sprouting A.D.D.L. buttons. Polling its readers, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that two-thirds of the ballots were opposed to all-number dialing. Said Hayakawa: "These people are systematically trying to destroy the use of memory. They tell you to 'write it down,' not memorize it. Try writing a telephone number down...
...being reduced to numbers. Some place you've got to stop and take a stand." At Indiana University, the A.D.D.L. chapter has turned to guerrilla warfare. Interpreting the area code and seven digits as one huge number, they place calls by saying, "Operator, give me S. I. Hayakawa at four billion, one hundred fifty-five million, eight hundred forty-two thousand, three hundred and one." Growls Chapter Leader Frederick Litto, "If they want digits, we'll give them digits." Litto 's men will also strike at the soft under belly of the telephone company's automation...
...final scene, when the fortune is safe in friendly in Hayakawa province, the two peasants come to the Princess for their rewards. She receives them in a sand garden where all is perfectly ordered and symmetrical. She and the general are arranged on a dais so as to be in perfect linear harmony with their surroundings. They have left the mountains and their angularity behind; Kurosawa underlines this happy and tranquil ending with a visual schema that is serene and classically ordered...