Word: processes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This process of advancing from one order of meaning to another, Korzybski calls abstracting. Purpose of his instruction is to make individuals conscious of this process, teach them that a word or symbol is not identical with the object it represents, slow up their automatic, conditioned responses to symbols. The concept of "identity," in Korzybski's view, is responsible for mankind's "false knowledge," harmful nervous reactions (e.g., a child who hates all men because it is mistreated by its father...
Dodging State taxes was, reported Master Flannery, a preoccupation of Colonel Green, as it had been of his mother. He had managed to pay no income taxes to any State by the simple process of citing to the tax collectors of each his residence in the others, especially Texas. Sharply condemning "migratory millionaires," Master Flannery opined that "conduct is of greater evidential value than mere declaration of intent...
...play is a dark forest of conflicting themes, can be variously regarded as a study in revolutionary disillusionment, an attack on revolutionary fanaticism, a defense of revolutionary intransigence. Danton can be seen as victim or traitor, Robespierre as scourge or hero, or both as merely instruments in a historical process. But Danton's Death is just as undramatic as it is indecisive. Fatalistic, Hamletesque Danton, bogged in procrastination and boredom, shouts back at Robespierre but never fights back. Everybody shouts, nobody fights. The play consists of great gobs of 19th-Century rhetoric; it could do much better with...
...particular interest to those concerned with the theatre craft are the examples of a mask in process included in the exhibition. Each successive make shows a progressive degeneration of character...
...Amsterdam Congress was attended by about 900 delegates from all over the world, 50 of them being Americans. Here Raisz, who studied in Budapest, Hungary, demonstrated his new mapping process which he developed in conjunction with Suderland of Stockholm. Its main principle is that the map surface is divided into type regions, each represented by a symbol which is pictorial and therefore easily recognized...