The Meanings Of Words Are Not In

America Is An Open Society, More Open Than Any Other In The World. People Of Every Race, Of Every Color, Of Every Culture Are Welcomed Here To Create A New Life For Themselves And Their Families. And What Do These People Who Enter Into The American Mainstream Have In Common? English, Our Shared Common Language.

Patriotic Societies Seem To Think That The Way To Educate School Children In A Democracy Is To Stage Bigger And Better Flag-saluting.

Those Terrifying Verbal Jungles Called Laws Are Simply Such Directives, Accumulated, Codified, And Systematized Through The Centuries.

In The Case Of Drama (stage, Movies, Television ), There Appear To Be People In Almost Every Audience Who Never Quite Fully Realize That A Play Is A Set Of Fictional, Symbolic Representations. An Actor Is One Who Symbolizes Other People, Real Or Imagined. [...] Also Some Years Ago It Was Reported That When Edward G. Robinson, Who Used To Play Gangster Roles With Extraordinary Vividness, Visited Chicago, Local Hoodlums Would Telephone Him At His Hotel To Pay Their Professional Respects.

Definitions, Contrary To Popular Opinion, Tell Us Nothing About Things. They Only Describe People's Linguistic Habits; That Is, They Tell Us What Noises People Make Under What Conditions.