Word: subject
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mention the dilemma of Korean wives of American personnel. The Korean national, although his nation is recognized by the U.S., is not eligible to reside in the U.S. as a permanent alien resident, nor dare he hope to achieve American citizenship, because the Korean is an Oriental and is subject to the Oriental Exclusion...
...week starting Friday, Feb. 11. Times are E.S.T., subject to change...
...advice of a few trusted dealers. National Gallery officials would say nothing of Gulbenkian himself last week except that he was "extremely modest" and "a real connoisseur": one of the conditions of the loan was that there must be no personal publicity from the gallery on the subject of Calouste Gulbenkian...
...would have walked across the street to listen to Alfred Korzybski. Today, as founder of a whole new system of thought called general semantics,* he has hundreds of followers all-over the world, and the respect of many scientists and scholars. Disciples have written articles on his subject ranging from "General Semantics and Dentistry" to "General Semantics and the Teaching of Physics." Doctors, using general semantics, have claimed it helped cure everything from alcoholism to frigidity. There are General Semantics Societies in twelve cities from Winnipeg to Sydney. Sample members: Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, President George Stoddard of the University...
...whole world adopted general semantics, treating each fact freshly without preconceived notions, Korzybski thinks i would be sane at last. Nowadays, at his Institute of General Semantics in Lakeville, Conn., he still whisks about in his wheelchair, hammering away at his subject with all the fire left in him. The world is not always with him-in fact, very littl of it is. "[We] still believe ... in the poisonous dogma that 'in the beginning was the word,'" complains the count "Infantilism is rampant . . . Pooh!" On that point, Korzybski is willing to generalize, without date, and without...