After a long wait, issue 73:1 (January 2016) of ETC: A Review of General Semantics is in the mail and is now available for download from the IGS Store in searchable PDF format.
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- From the Vault:
"Interview with Allen Flagg" by Martin H. Levinson
- "Spirituality at the Speed of Light" by Lance Strate
- From the Vault:
"The Future of Consciousness" by Lance Strate
- "Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland: Revisiting S. I. Hayakawa's 'Popular Songs vs. the Facts of Life" by Robert Albrecht
- "Why Journalists Lie: The Troublesome Times for Janet Cooke, Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair, and Brian Williams" by Jefferson Spurlock
- "Fairy Tale: Swansong for Trump" by Marleen S. Barr
- "Groping 'Pussy Galore': Transporting Trump from Reality TV to Unreal Genre Fiction--Dystopia, Fairy Tale, and Science Fiction" by Marleen S. Barr
- "Live from New Yawk: Donald Trump Sounds like The Real Housewives of New York City Cast" by Marleen S. Barr
- "Of Hopis and Heptapods: The Return of Sapir-Whorf" by John Engle
- "The Star Image and National Identity of Sessue Hayakawa and Marlene Dietrich" by James Eric (Jay) Black
- "Photonics, Globalism, and Tribalism" by Eugene Marlow
- "The Language of the Gods: An Analysis of the Possibility of Conceptual Schemes" by John Engle
- "Reconstructing (What Barely Passes for) English Grammar: Looking Well Beyond E-Prime" by Stan Kozikowski
- Poems:
"Condo" by Jane Blanchard
"A Priori" by Jane Blanchard
"As If to Shine" by Danny P. Barbare
"Us Janitors" by Danny P. Barbare
- Plus Letter from the Editor and News and Notes.
Cover Art
The photograph used for the cover of ETC 73:1 is by Rick Wise. Wise labels his images “Photographic Fiction.” Currently he is working on two
different series, Things, everyday objects we pass by without seeing, and Time-Flows, in which time is simultaneously expanded and contracted. He considers all of his work “Dancing with the Eye.”