Word: semanticists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help!"), Historian David Owen ("Don't let yourselves become pedantic and pompous"), Biologist William H. Weston ("Never . . . feel an envious resentment toward [a student] if ... he shows promise of surpassing you"). Well up front, the Handbook offers a general caution or two about the whole profession. Writes famed Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards, after eleven years as a teacher at Harvard: "It's a daunting business being a professor . . . You will have, if you join this curious trade, to walk in public an endless slack wire over incredible abysses. It's a quivering wire, which seems...