Word: stuarts
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...TYRANNY OF WORDS-Stuart Chase -Harcourt, Brace...
...year-old Boston accountant named Stuart Chase took his bride on a strange honeymoon. They poked through slums, pretended to be pitiful specimens of the unemployed, checking up on working conditions in sweatshops. The natural result was not a baby but a book. Stuart Chase, who thus unconventionally introduced his bride to facts he considered fundamental, has spent his life introducing himself and his growing public to facts of deeper & deeper import. Primarily a popularizer of other men's ideas, Author Chase expresses each new enthusiasm in startling journalese. Without the authority of the learned or the wise...
...question, which higher brows than Chase's had dubbed semantics, is: What is the connection between words and reality? Readers who knew their Stuart Chase expected a lively piling up of rough-hewn evidence, the sinister emergence of a nigger, and a whooping pursuit. They were not disappointed. The Tyranny of Words is a typical Stuart Chase book: popular, suggestive, controversial, a racy simplification of a vast problem...
...prove his claim, Stuart Chase gives a digest of semantic authorities and then shows how meaningless in the light of their studies are some passages from 'such pundits as Plato, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, President Roosevelt, Walter Lippmann, Henry Ford. He even damns an excerpt from his own writings. As his only ''operational test" he asked 100 people, ranging from schoolboys to Senators, what "fascism" meant to them. They all disliked it, but they had 15 different concepts of what they disliked, including that of a housewife who thought it was "a Florida rattlesnake." Popular ideas...
...selection of the last year's best books, Clifton Fadiman made a plea to young authors that they write with more care towards the use of words. Wilson Follett complained that the definition of a sentence as "a complete thought expressed in words" had become obsolete. The economist, Stuart Chase, in a recent provocative article, urged that the way to make language a better vehicle for ideas was to pursue the science of semantics, which teaches that the two main sins of language are identification of words with things and the misuse of abstract terms...