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...edge of the jumping pit. He had measured his stride perfectly, and he did not have to falter or shorten or lengthen it. Then he bunched his strong body together, and, as he leaped high and far, it looked as if he were a human projectile fired from some unseen and unheard...
...Count Alfred Korzybski, inventor of general semantics. Korzybski was a Polish-born mathematician and physicist, part crank and part genius, who regarded his theory as a whole new science of life. Our language, argued Korzybski, does not reflect reality, and its structure does not correspond to the seen or unseen world. Its grammar, based on Aristotelian logic, implies primitive philosophical concepts tied to the prescientific past. All this leads to emotional disturbances and 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...
...small size (4 ft. 11 in.), Reich was unable to see the protest target over the heads of taller marchers. These days he looks back on that incident as a symbol of the confrontations of the late 1960s ?a seething mass of humanity moving loudly against an unseen enemy...
...crunched through the countryside on search-and-destroy missions; during the same period, artillery laced patterns of "H & I" (harassment and interdiction) fire from dusk until dawn, throwing tons of shells at village crossroads that might-or might not -be used as routes for infiltration. Bombs still fall from unseen planes without warning; some inevitably land in the wrong place, others in the right place but on the wrong people. Bureaucratic demands for a show of allied progress on the basis of "hamlet-evaluation systems" have sometimes encouraged officials to evacuate villages unnecessarily. In early April, 650 people were removed...
Unlikely ingredients for forward-looking theater. But around these stereo-and monotypes the past swirls and. flickers, a tincture of antique dreams and topical allusions. Follies is a play full of ghosts. The young hopefuls whom Weismann nurtured scatter their lines across the stage and run unseen by their older living images?a double exposure in three dimensions. The principals are, literally, beside themselves with grief. For, as it happens, the Weismann theater is not the only institution awaiting the wrecking ball. The other is marriage. Sally and her glib, skirt-chasing husband Buddy (Gene Nelson) have become pathetic caricatures...