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...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, it's wonderful . . . in ev'ry way." A general semanticist following Korzybski's rules to the extreme would render the line thus: "Fallings in love3 are wonderful, they are wonderful [to me] in a great many ways...
WITH this motto gracing last year's annual report, the Harvard Voluntary Defenders (HVD), founded in 1949 "to render free legal service to indigent persons accused of crime," have now moved into their 22nd year of operation. Although some critics may accuse HVD members of too much Raymond Burr and E. G. Marshall at any early age, the group's activities are generally considered a force for good in the Boston community...
...Dirksen's career for 19 years-the last twelve as chief congressional correspondent for TIME. He is best when narrating the intricate workings of Congress, fondly chronicling the stratagems of cloture and bombast. His portrait is judicious and frequently admiring. Only occasionally, though, does he step back and render judgment: "Using a rhetorical ready-mix of melancholy and country humor, Dirksen mouthed the platitudes of an earlier America as though they were beatitudes, and he sensed himself as the appointed guardian of those values...
...quality. Unfortunately, the translation does not mirror the variation in the poems, since it is always uniform, unchanging, unexpressive. Occasionally, Sachs writes brief, epigram-like statements of a few lines, none of which seem to succeed very well. One such is "Iich sah eine Stelle," which the translators render, transposing the first two lines, as "I found a hat a man had worn/Saw where a stove had stood/What sand, O my beloved, /Knows of your blood?" Neither the English nor the German is very memorable, no matter how deeply felt...
...rigorous demands for early specialization in the natural sciences render inaccessible much of the insight that science offers...