Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cohen, Felix S.
• Lee, D. Demetracopoulou
• Aronson, Alex
• Goldstein, Kurt
• Hayakawa, S. I.
• Dorner, Alexander
• Cherbeneau, Alice F.

Titel

RETROSPECT: FIFTY YEARS AGO IN "ETC"

Ist Teil von

• Etc., 1997-10, Vol.54 (3), p.381-387

Ort / Verlag

Concord: International Society for General Semantics

Erscheinungsjahr

1997

Quelle

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Thank God, my Lords, this is not our case; we are otherwise provided for. [...]we need not be unduly surprised when we hear journalists at that time complain of the cynical indifference of "men of quality" towards Wit: "Few people of distinction trouble themselves about the name of wit, fewer understand it, and hardly any have honored it with their example." The patient, we conclude, cannot use words in this sense because he cannot assume the abstract attitude. Since the patient faces the world with the particular attitude to which speech is not relevant (or which we could accompany only with very "individual" words), the nominal words do not even occur to him. ALICE F. CHERBENEAU UNIVERSITY OF DENVER The following is a news story via Associated Press which appeared in the Chicago Daily News, January 22,1948: DOG "INSULTED" OWNER KILLS; FACES CHAIR NEW YORK - (AP) - A man is facing death on a firstdegree murder conviction by a General Sessions Court jury in a fatal shooting growing out of what he called an insult to his dog. Maikish replied the dog would not eat hamburger and Conlon called the animal, a pure bred Doberman Pinscher, a "fussy mutt." Because there was no recommendation of mercy, a sentence of death in the electric chair is mandatory.