Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This process of advancing from one order of meaning to another, Korzybski calls abstracting. Purpose of his instruction is to make individuals conscious of this process, teach them that a word or symbol is not identical with the object it represents, slow up their automatic, conditioned responses to symbols. The concept of "identity," in Korzybski's view, is responsible for mankind's "false knowledge," harmful nervous reactions (e.g., a child who hates all men because it is mistreated by its father...
Harlow everybody, Harlow. Don't you Lovett, bound for New Haven from Boston again! Did you Stack the Dyess, Pond my word, don't be Zilly...
...reports on consumer tastes. Chrysler's Head Statistician John Scoville spends most of his time studying registration tabulations, dealer suggestions and sales records, checks his findings with occasional direct surveys of buyer opinion. General Motors alone carries on constant customer research in the full sense of the word...
...good eye (he has been blind in his right eye since birth). Likable and expansive, he talks incessantly, wrinkles his nose when amused, which is often. Though his job is listening to the public, he is a poor listener personally. Visitors have a hard time getting a word in edgewise but rarely mind because the Weaver conversation is equipped not only with a store of fresh ideas but with an incredible volume of Negro stories which he tells in a nasal Georgia drawl...
...Trouble With Tigers does one good thing: it settles the argument about what Saroyan's writing is all about. "I have written one word," he announces, "God." Altogether he intends to write three. The second will be "Is." The third: "Love." The announcement of this program makes dawning sense, for if Saroyan appears in his stories in any consistent role, it is as a sort of humanist jumping jack, waiting only until he has written a few more Books of Saroyan to leap forward as a U. S. prophet...