Hayakawa sought to bring muga, or the " absence of doing ," closely akin to the concept of less is more to his performances, in direct contrast to the then-popular studied poses and broad gestures.

Facit sought to handle this disruptive threat by collaborating with the Japanese firm Hayakawa ( Sharp ).

Hayakawa Ken would happen upon this, and meet the yojinbo, which would lead to a demonstration of the latter's preferred skill, only for Hayakawa Ken to show that he was much better.

A parody of the 1977 Toei superhero show Swift Hero Zubat ( created by Shotaro Ishinomori ), the title hero of this series has the same exact alter-ego, Ken Hayakawa, only he is comically fat fanboyish young man wearing the same exact gringo cowboy attire!

Both general semantics along the lines of Hayakawa, Lee, and Postman and more technical ( mathematical and philosophical ) material.

Hayakawa and others, which attempted to make language more precise and objective.

To uphold his family's samurai tradition, Hayakawa stabbed himself in the abdomen more than 30 times.

Hayakawa made two more films with Ince, The Wrath of the Gods co-starring his new wife, Issei actress Tsuru Aoki, and The Sacrifice.

In more than 20 films for Famous Players, Hayakawa was typecast as either the villain or the exotic lover who in the end would turn his lover over to the proper man of her race.

At the time, the major male star was Wallace Reid, with a fair complexion, light eyes, and an All American look, with Valentino the opposite, eventually supplanting Sessue Hayakawa as Hollywood's most popular " exotic " male lead.

His fellow students — there were 38 in all — included young Samuel I. Hayakawa ( later to become a Republican member of the U. S. Senate ), Ralph Moriarty deBit ( later to become the spiritual teacher Vitvan ) and Wendell Johnson ( founder of the Monster Study ).

Some of the General Semantics tradition was continued by Samuel I. Hayakawa, who had a dispute with Korzybski.

When asked because of what, Hayakawa is said to have replied: " Words.

This led to alliances between Japanese calculator manufacturers and U. S. semiconductor companies: Canon Inc. with Texas Instruments, Hayakawa Electric ( later known as Sharp Corporation ) with North-American Rockwell Microelectronics, Busicom with Mostek and Intel, and General Instrument with Sanyo.

He said that Dianetics " forms a bridge between " cybernetics and General Semantics ( a set of ideas about education originated by Alfred Korzybski, which received much attention in the science fiction world in the 1940s ) — a claim denied by scholars of General Semantics, including S. I. Hayakawa, who expressed strong criticism of Dianetics as early as 1951.

* Hayakawa, S. I .: " From Science-Fiction to Fiction-Science ," in ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Vol.

* 1906 – S. I. Hayakawa, American semanticist and politician ( d. 1992 )

** Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese-American actor ( b. 1889 )

Hayakawa ( 1906 – 1992 ), speech professor Wendell Johnson, speech professor Irving J. Lee, and others assembled elements of general semantics into a package suitable for incorporation into mainstream communications curricula.

Language considerations figure prominently in general semantics, and three language and communications specialists who embraced general semantics, university professors and authors Hayakawa, Wendell Johnson and Neil Postman, played major roles in framing general semantics, especially for non-readers of Science and Sanity.

Hayakawa read The Tyranny of Words, then Science and Sanity, and in 1939 he attended a Korzybski-led workshop conducted at the newly organized Institute of General Semantics in Chicago.

In the introduction to his own Language in Action, a 1941 Book of the Month Club selection, Hayakawa wrote, " principles have in one way or another influenced almost every page of this book ...." But, Hayakawa followed Chase's lead in interpreting general semantics as making communication its defining concern.

In vain his mind groped to reassemble the bones of the relationships he had sought so desperately, but they would not come to life.

Faced with rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure and internal resistance, Saddam desperately sought out cash once again, this time for postwar reconstruction.

Thackeray desperately sought cures for her, but nothing worked, and she ended up confined in a home near Paris.

Later in his life, Qin Shi Huang feared death and desperately sought the fabled elixir of life, which would supposedly allow him to live forever.

Along the road the men of the Rifle Brigade desperately attempted to find PIAT anti-tank weapons and set up a 6 pounder anti-tank gun, but as the Tiger drew closer panic set in and the riflemen abandoned their efforts and sought shelter.

As the six month grace period ran, he desperately sought alternatives to the ordered move.

Nonetheless, having chosen an underground movement from which a great many Jews desperately sought help, Spaak walked all over the city of Paris in an effort to find a hospital willing to take the risk of treating Jews who were in hiding and in dire need of medical attention.

Dating back to the Missouri Compromise, the Southern region desperately sought to maintain an equal balance of slave states and free states so as to be competitive in the Senate.

" became part of the popular consciousness of the Eighties, summing up the mood of many who sought desperately for work during the era.

As Sierra Nevada gold mine output came to a trickle by the early 1850s, followed by local financial panic caused by the discovery of gold in Australia, anger towards hard-working and labor-cheap Chinese grew from economically pressured miners, who desperately sought alternative work in California's cities and ports.

In the year 1755, the acclaimed Mughal viceroy of Punjab, Muin-ul-Mulk died his widow Mughlam Begum desperately sought the assistance of Ahmad Shah Durrani to halt any succession struggle and to quell the Sikh rebels in the eastern regions.

The facility began to sink into disrepair as the owners desperately sought a buyer.

* In the midst of the 1967 Lok Sabha elections, Ram Manohar Lohia was being desperately sought by a lady from Europe.

Separated from his men in the chaos, Cao Cao desperately sought an escape.

In March 2000 the then Education Secretary David Blunkett sought to close down the debate by saying " I'm desperately trying to avoid the whole debate in education concentrating on the issue of selection when it should be concentrating on the raising of standards.

Losing at the trial, Blackthorne lunges desperately at the Jesuit, rips off the priest ’ s crucifix and stamps it into the dust to show the daimyo that the priest is his enemy.

In the ensuing chaos as people run for cover ( including Ivan desperately trying to save his beloved animals ), unflinching Blacky and Marko show no signs of panic.

In 2010, Keaton starred alongside Rachel McAdams and Harrison Ford in Roger Michell's comedy Morning Glory, playing the veteran TV host of a fictional morning talk show that desperately needs to boost its lagging ratings.

Although Adrian desperately tries to talk his mother and Rosie out of informing George or appearing on the show, they do and it is proven that Lucas is indeed Rosie's father.

The show's premise was that Ober desperately wanted to be a game show host and set up his basement ( at 72 Whooping Cough Lane ) as a television studio.

He is very business-like and doesn't show his sensitive side, which makes him appear cold-blooded although he has shown to truly care for his adopted son and, in secret, he is desperately struggling to control Mesogog, the evil creature he transforms into.

2012-Present, Van Der Beek portrays a fictionalized version of himself in the show " Don't Trust the B ---- in Apartment 23 " who is desperately trying to revamp his sagging acting career.

He falls desperately in love with her, although she does not show any emotion for him.

She became desperately shy when she had to show Piaf a new song, even after years of collaboration.

By 9 August they were desperately short of water ; that day they came upon a native, who they captured and forced to show where water was located.