Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father of general semantics was born in 1879-the same year, he likes to point out, as Einstein and Stalin. The son of a Polish mathematician, he served through World War I in the Russian Army, was wounded, finally got sent to the U.S. as an artillery expert. Later, he mortgaged his estate, and spent the rest of his fortune, and more than ten years, writing the knotty 800-page bible of general semantics, Science and Sanity...
...subject with all the fire left in him. The world is not always with him-in fact, very littl of it is. "[We] still believe ... in the poisonous dogma that 'in the beginning was the word,'" complains the count "Infantilism is rampant . . . Pooh!" On that point, Korzybski is willing to generalize, without date, and without...
...single student to the rolls," but in 13 years, Fordham's enrollment jumped from 7,300 to 14,000 Last week as he retired (TIME, Jan. 17), his successor, Father Laurence J. McGinley, said he hoped that the rise was over. "Education," said he, "has reached the point . . . where it is doing a little quiet self-analysis ..." A college might soon not have to worry about how many students it must educate, but which students it should educate, for one thing was constant-"the importance in time and in eternity of the individual student...
...also, apparently, frozen up their playing, and Detroit critics were quick to notice it. Wrote the Detroit Times after a concert last week: "A morass of spotty mediocrity . . . the low point of the season." After the next night's repeat performance, Reichhold grabbed a real hot potato with both hands. He rushed backstage, delivered an ultimatum: "Either the orchestra does something immediately about the press, or 90 men will be out of a job. Dr. Krueger and I have fought bad publicity by ourselves long enough. Now it's up to you." He ordered them to protest...
...years since, the style* of Eimi (pronounced ay-me-"I am," in Greek) has become slightly more familiar; it offers no real trouble to an attentive reader, and on occasion adds to the sense of immediacy. On the other hand, Cummings' point of view, his simple reliance on what he himself felt, saw and heard, is rarer than ever-at least among travelers permitted to make the same trip nowadays...