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Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn, Associate Professor of Anthropology, slashed out with a lecture modestly entitled "The Case Against Liberalism," at Tuesday evening's "Liberalism" meeting, the fourth in a series of seven. Not only did the speaker flail the liberal conception of basic human nature, but he also hit at our religion of today, declaring "we need a church, a new church, an humanistic secular church...
Ogden saw that, because each of these key words reflected so many meanings, perhaps a basic language could be formulated. If a small enough number of words could cover a wide enough field, then this code of words could become a working international language, he thought...
...nation-wide publicity following British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's remarks about it in his Sanders Theatre address on Labor Day, Basic English, an international language formulated by Ira A. Richards of Harvard's Orthological Committee and F. K. Ogden of Cambridge University and London, England, has been acclaimed as one of the major cultural developments hastened...
Miss Christine M. Gibson, research assistant to Richards, yesterday stated that as an international language, Basic English is sufficient, practical, and universal. So simple, in fact, is the language, that persons of Chinese, Indic, and Russian origin have learned it easily...
...Basic English was conceived in 1920 when Ogden and Richards were writing "The Meaning of Meaning," a book of the processes by which words came to have different meanings. In this work they charted the various definitions and senses in which key words of the language could be used...