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Next, says Hayakawa. comes the demoralization or despair...
...deeply saddened by this phenomenon is University of Chicago Semanticist S. I. (for Samuel Ichiyé) Hayakawa. A small, vigorous Japanese-Canadian of 47, Vancouver-born Dr. Hayakawa is editor of the quarterly, ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, writes books and magazine pieces, and is a devoted jazz fan. Word Man Hayakawa finds the lyrics of most popular songs unspeakably bad. Says he: "The words of true jazz songs, especially the Negro blues, tend to be highly realistic and unsentimental in their statements about life. The words of popular songs . . . pretty much the product of white songwriters for white...
...summer conference on general semantics at St. Louis, Hayakawa organized his antipathy to pop lyrics into a thesis based on what a fellow semanticist has labeled "the IFD disease." IFD, explained Hayakawa, is a "triple-threat semantic disorder" of Idealization (the making of impossibly ideal demands on life), which leads to Frustration (when Idealization's demands are not met), which in turn leads to Demoralization, Tin Pan Alley, says Hayakawa, breeds IFD germs as Jersey swamps breed mosquitoes. "First, there is an enormous amount of idealization, the creation of a wishful dream girl or dream boy, the fleshly counterpart...
...Three Came Home" is remarkably fair in its treatment of Japanese soldiers. Seesyue Hayakawa, particularly, gives a skillful, moving performance as the Japanese colonel who is a strange combination of kindness and cruelty...
...great pains to achieve technical accuracy. Background shots were taken in North Bornce and fantastic quantities of jungle flora was shipped to Hollywood to make authentic looking sets. If Producer-Scripter Nunnally Johnson and Director Negulesco had lived up to the standards of Mr. Zaunck, Miss Colbert, and Mr. Hayakawa, "Three Came Home" might have been a great movie as well as an exciting and moving...