Some of his ideas were popularized by Stuart Chase in The Tyranny of Words in 1938, and by Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, in Language in Action in 1941 ( which later became Language in Thought and Action ).

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

The decision was supported by a unanimous vote in both houses of the California State Legislature, the national Japanese American Citizens League, and S. I. Hayakawa, then a United States Senator from California.

" Hayakawa then disarmed yet another cowboy.

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.

After the war, he joined the Committee on Mathematical Biology at the University of Chicago ( 1947 – 1954 ), publishing his first book, Science and the Goals of Man, co-authored with semanticist S. I. Hayakawa in 1950.

until 1970 — Korzybski and his followers at the Institute of General Semantics began to complain that Hayakawa had wrongly coopted general semantics.

Hayakawa famously pulled the wires out of the speakers on top of a van at a student rally.

Hayakawa was an English professor at San Francisco State College ( now called San Francisco State University ) from 1955 to 1968.

Hayakawa became popular with conservative voters in this period after he pulled the wires out from the speakers on a student van at an outdoor rally, dramatically disrupting it .< ref >< del > Yaga. com </ del > Hayakawa relented on December 6, 1968 and created the first-in-the-nation College of Ethnic Studies.

* Samuel I. Hayakawa papers at the Hoover Institution Archives

Active at the beginning of the American film industry, Hayakawa was the first and remains one of the few Asian actors to find stardom in the United States and Europe.

At the end of his second year of studies at the University of Chicago, Hayakawa decided to quit and return to Japan.

Anxious to return to his studies at the University of Chicago, Hayakawa decided to try to dissuade Ince by requesting the absurdly high fee of $ 500 a week.

After years of extensive typecasting at Famous Players, Hayakawa decided to form his own production company.

During this period Hayakawa was at his Hollywood peak.

Due to anti-miscegenation laws that existed at the time, Hayakawa would be unable to become a citizen or marry someone of another race.

She died in 1961 at which time Hayakawa moved back to Japan and became a Zen master.

Hayakawa said of the incident, " The first one struck out at me.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Sessue Hayakawa was awarded a star on the legendary Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1645 Vine Street, in Hollywood, California.

* Sessue Hayakawa Gallery at Silent Gents

Hayakawa ended the strike by taking a hardline approach, appointed Dr. James Hirabayashi the first dean of the School ( now College ) of Ethnic studies at San Francisco State University, and increased recruiting and admissions of students of color in response to the strike's demands.

In the 1960s, he moved to San Francisco and taught English, creative writing, and general semantics at San Francisco State College, where he was a student of S. I. Hayakawa.

ETC magazine was founded by Hayakawa, who was a professor at San Francisco State College and member of the U. S. Senate during the Carter administration.

In some cities such as San Francisco, opposition was organized ; the opposition group in San Francisco was called the Anti Digit Dialing League, of which S. I. Hayakawa was a notable member.

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

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.

When Hayakawa co-founded the Society for General Semantics and its publication ETC.

Includes Hayakawa ’ s essays “ General Semantics and the Cold War Mentality ” and “ Semantics and Sexuality .”

After he recovered from the suicide attempt Hayakawa enrolled in the University of Chicago to study political economics.

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 ).

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

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

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.

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.

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.

* French Audiobook ( mp3 ), incipit of The Words ( 1964 ), read aloud in French by IncipitBlog.

One of the most influential texts that he read was Cheng Kuan-ying's Sheng-shih Wei-yen ( Words of Warning to an Affluent Age ), a political tract that lamented the deterioration of Chinese power in East Asia, arguing for technological, economic and political reform, modelling China on the representative democracies of the western world.

It is therefore fitting that his last book, published posthumously, should be one that he describes as being " something of a shorter and more accessible version of the longer books, The Great Code and Words with Power ," which he asks his readers to read sympathetically, not " as proceeding from a judgment seat of final conviction, but from a rest stop on a pilgrimage, however near the pilgrimage may now be to its close " ( Double Vision Preface ).

After Pinter's death on 24 December 2008, Gambon read Hirst's monologue selected by the playwright for Gambon to read at his funeral, held on 31 December 2008, during the cast's memorial remarks from the stage as well as at the funeral and also in Words and Music, transmitted on the BBC Radio 3 on 22 February 2009.

Words that are generally understood when heard or read or seen constitute a person's receptive vocabulary.

Words were no longer alive and immediate, they were able to read over and over again.

In 1997, Leapfrog marketed an animated DVD, The Talking Words Factory, whose purpose is to encourage young children to learn to read.

Words without a feminine suffix may take a masculine reading, especially in the case of people and domestic animals ; koko, for example, means " chicken ", but is read as masculine in koko kaj kokino " rooster and hen ".< ref > Wennergren, Bertilo Wennergren.

In the 1960s and 1970s the company's Key Words Reading Scheme ( launched in 1964 ) was heavily used by British primary schools, using a reduced vocabulary to help children learn to read.

The series consisted of four programs, beginning with Junkie and followed by The Yage Letters, read by Burroughs and Allen Ginsburg, The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, and, finally, Naked Lunch.

WPM most commonly refers to Words per minute, a measure of how many words a person or system can read or write in that amount of time.

In episode seven, " Invisible Words ", Juna is able to read the words in the minds of everyone around her, yet still cannot understand their intentions.

Sir George Harvey was the author of a paper on the " Colour of the Atmosphere ," read before the Edinburgh Royal Society, and afterwards published with illustrations in Good Words ; and in 1870 he published a small volume entitled Notes of the Early History of the Royal Scottish Academy.

** Chemical Elements Reduced to Words All Things Considered, June 9, 2005 · Melissa Block and Robert Siegel read scifaiku from the Periodic Table of Haiku

Words are recalled most effectively with data-driven cues ( word completion ) if they are read, rather than generated by a subject.

Robertson Davies serially published the first few chapters of his work The Manticore in the Golden Words, with the mythical title character originally a Mexican hairless cat who could read German.