Word: semanticist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...together. I respect and admire him very much. And I'm not about to let any rumors interfere with my right to select my own friends." Quietly, Agnew has been visiting compatible intellectuals, possibly in search of stimulation on some of the deeper emerging national issues. They include Semanticist S.I. Hayakawa, Futurist Herman Kahn and Historian Daniel Boorstin...
...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, it's wonderful . . . in ev'ry way." A general semanticist following Korzybski's rules to the extreme would render the line thus: "Fallings in love3 are wonderful, they are wonderful [to me] in a great many ways...
WHEN I use a word," declared that famed semanticist, Humpty Dumpty, "it means just what I choose it to mean." He mitigated this tyrannical attitude by explaining that when he made a word do a lot of work, he always paid it extra. Spiro Agnew, who also has a highhanded way with words, owes a great deal of overtime pay to the phrase "radical liberal." As he employs the phrase, upon which he has turned his vigorous intervention in the current congressional campaign, radical liberal seems to be an elastic blanket covering a huge bed, strangely cohabited by "the northeastern...