Word: semanticists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shoulder the Sky. In six weeks, in an assigned paper, Empson wrote the first draft of Seven Types of Ambiguity, which became a classic of modern literary criticism. His tutor, Semanticist I. A. Richards, had been exploring the wide range of meanings that various minds can find in the simplest verse. Empson took up the subject and exhausted it. Some readers complained Poet-Mathematician Empson had "read things into poetry that weren't there," erecting double or multiple meanings into a poetic principle...
Sayre spent four months working out a usable basic Spanish and writing the script. He found that the average Mexican laborer has about 500 words at his command, a white-collar worker some 2,000. With some advice from Harvard's famed Semanticist Ivor Armstrong ("Basic English") Richards, he boiled the Spanish course down to a working vocabulary. This 13-week transcribed series is available to any radio station...
...visitors quickly made themselves at home. They went shopping for U. S. clothes and cars, mobbed Chapel Hill's three leading undergraduate "juke joints"-Aggie's, Harry's, The Pines. Most popular class was one in Basic English (850 words), taught by Harvard's Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards, who was lent to North Carolina especially for the occasion. Although the visitors learned rapidly, the campus had some chuckles. At the movies, a South American asked his date whether she had yet been afflicted with "the constipation" (flu). Another visitor, invited to a freshman party, told...