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In Thought and Action
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Gerald W. Haslam with Janice E. Haslam
We are especially grateful to
Wynne and Alan Hayakawa who opened the family's archive to us. Many
clippings, reprints, and notes, including diaries and letters, that would
have been virtually impossible to track down were as a result available to
us, albeit not always with complete bibliographic information. Nevertheless,
they constituted a wonderful and unexpected source of information.
Gerry and Jan Haslam |
Key: |
SIH = S.I. Hayakawa |
p. 5--"earn a living," IH ltr to SIH, 1/15/1947. p. 5--"I decided to stay," IH in The Phoenix, 3/11/1971, n.p., [Hayakawa Archive]. p. 6--"Japanese English teacher," SIH ltr to Herb Caen, 8/27/1962. p. 6--"by white people," IH in The Phoenix, 3/11/1971, n.p., [Hayakawa Archive]. p. 6--"18 or 19 at that time," SIH, "My Father, Ichiro Hayakawa, 1884-1976," Hokubei Mainichi, 1/24/1976, p. 1. p. 6--"in English literature," SIH, ibid. p. 6--"Die Lorelei," SIH in Julie Gordon Shearer, S.I. Hayakawa and Margedant Peters Hayakawa: From Semantics to the U.S. Senate, Etc., Etc. Berkeley: The Bancroft Library [Regional Oral History Office], 1994, p. 7. p. 6-7--"enter Stanford University," IH ltr to SIH, 1/15/1947. p. 7--"Japanese medicine taught him," AH conver w/ GWH, 7/11/2005. p. 7--"is no physician," quoted by SIH in "A Japanese American Goes to Japan," Asia, April 1937, p. 271. p. 7--"to marry grandfather," Masako Gray conver w/ GWH, 11/1/1999. p. 7--"a great future," SIH in Shearer, op. cit., pp. 3-4. p. 8--"and other expenses," IH ltr to SIH and Fred Hayakawa, 1/18/1947. p. 8--"Keep the Yellow out," BKI e-mail to GWH, 10/19/2006. p. 8--"ghetto wall defined it...," Ken Adachi, The Enemy That Never Was: A History of the Japanese Canadians, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1976, p. 131. p. 9--"Japanese colony in Vancouver," SIH ltr to MPH, 7/1/1935. p. 9--"and argue, understand contracts," ibid. p. 9--"10% of British Columbia's population," Adachi, op. cit., p. 38. p. 9--"of 4,722 issued," ibid., p. 47. p. 9--"development of this province," Victoria Colonist, 12/6/1884, in ibid., pp. 39-40. p. 10--"have submitted meekly," ibid., p. 59. p. 10--"rather troublesome baby," Ruth Hayakawa ltr to SIH, 8/22/1936. p. 10--"different than other Japanese," Grace Emi Hayakawa conver w/ GWH, 11/1/1999. p. 10--"behave as a leader," Masako Gray conver w/ GWH, 11/1/1999. p. 10--"have a White Canada," Fraser in Adachi, op. cit., p. 73. p. 11--"tore into the mob," Adachi, op. cit., p. 74. p. 11--"the trouble more difficult," Laurier in ibid. p. 11--"white man's country," Vancouver Daily Province, 9/9/1907, p. 63. p. 11--"were being sacrificed," Adachi, op. cit., p. 63. |
p. 12--"occupied with other business," SIH, "A Japanese-American Goes to Japan," |
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
p. 34--"mountains north of Montreal," BKI ltr to GWH, 6/20/2001. |
Chapter 6
p. 43--"As a 'go-fer'," Stewart Johnson ltr to GWH, 3/28/2004. |
Chapter 7
p. 51--"I could gladly strangle," MPH ltr to SIH, 6/22/1933. |
Chapter 8
p. 61--"forestall confessions of love," MPH diary entry, 1/7/1934. |
Chapter 9
p. 70--"as a subject race," Miller Freeman in Doug Blair "The
1920 Anti-Japanese
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Chapter 10
p.78-"drugstore down the street?"
"pome to peters," unpublished poem, [Hayakawa |
Chapter 11
86--"teaching the English Language,"
"Japanese is English Prof for U.W. Here," |
Chapter 12
p. 96--"no trouble at all," MPH in Shearer, op. cit., p. 71. |
Chapter 13
p. 106--"or succeeded so well," Sidney Hook, Saturday Review of
Literature, |
Chapter 14
p. 113--"a good guy," William Pemberton conver w/ GWH, 3/15/2000. |
Chapter 15
p. 124--"introduction to semantics," The New Yorker,
11/22/1941, p. 111. |
Chapter 16
p. 139--"work out very well," MPH in Shearer, op. cit., p. 161. |
Chapter 17
p. 148--"any goddamn war," SIH in Shearer, op. cit., p. 151. |
Chapter 18
p. 156--"Korzybski's own pronouncements," SIH in Shearer, op. cit.,
p. 130. |
Chapter 19
p. 163--"other crackpot doctrines," SIH ltr to MPH, 7/25/1944. |
Chapter 20
p. 175--"from your father," Philip Litwer ltr to SIH, 11/23/1945. |
Chapter 21
p. 185--"symbols they have left," SIH, "What to Do With
Japan," unpublished [?] mss., |
Chapter 22
p. 195--"but he stayed home," DR conver w/ GWH & JEH, 2/5/2005. |
Chapter 23
p. 204--"to its emotional overloads," Fiske, op. cit., p. 98. |
Chapter 24
p. 215--"a bass now and then," SIH ltr to MPH, 6/12/1952. |
Chapter 25
p. 226--"the summer after that," SIH, "Why the English
Language Amendment? An |
Chapter 26
p. 234--"he was a real catch," Dan Knapp conver w/ GWH, 3/7/2001. |
Chapter 27
p. 240--"the worst Mexican slum," SIH ltr to MPH, 8/4/1955. |
Chapter 28
p. 250--"brasher stage of California," Manfred Wolf, "Hope and
Unease, Reason and |
Chapter 29
p. 260--"pitched right in," DR conver w/ GWH & JEH, 2/8/2000. |
Chapter 30
p. 273--"account for its actions," Helene Whitson,
"Introductory Essay," Strike! a |
Chapter 31
p. 288--"none of which I deserve," Salzman, op. cit., p. 15. |
Chapter 32
p. 299--"for all the wrong reasons," Dan Knapp conver w/ GWH,
3/7/2001. |
Chapter 33
p. 313--"pry a decision from," Greenwood, op. cit., p. A26. |
Chapter 34
p. 324--"a real rookie," SIH in Martin Tomchin, "Congressional
Freshmen Return to |
Chapter 35
p. 335--"didn't vary at all," SIH, "How Can SALT II Be That
Good for Both |
Chapter 31
p. 345--"much to unify the party," William Endicott, "Hayakawa
Calls for Woman |
Chapter 37
p. 357--"complaints about the press," SIH in Shearer, p. 328. |
Chapter 38
p. 367--"I have narcolepsy," Pemberton conver w/ GWH, op. cit. |
ADDENDUM A Hayakawa and Homophobia |
After the manuscript of In "Thought and Action: The Enigmatic Life of S.I. Hayakawa" had already gone to press, a fellow writer whom I much respect, Greg Robinson, mentioned that Hayakawa had been homophobic. I was shocked, since he'd seemed enlightened to me in the 1960s with his insistence that what consenting adults did in private was their own business. During that decade, I worked with Hayakawa on ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, and his chief lieutenant was a gay man. |
ADDENDUM B:
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Four other members of the Hayakawa household/family have passed away.
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ADDENDUM C:
(Find an error? If so, please inform us.) | ||
Page | Reads | Should read |
p. 22, lines 5-6 | "then a three-year program" | "a three-year program then" |
p. 22, line 16-17 | "Harry Shunsuke Kobayashi..." | "Harry Shinsuke Kobayashi" |
p. 57, line 25 | "nomes" | "noms" |
p. 60, line 9 | "Teichman" | "Teichmann" |
p. 109, line 23 | "That November..." | "November of 1938..." |
p. 147, line 10 | "hated of Negroes..." | "hatred of Negroes..." |
p. 152, line 5 | "art styles of art of..." | "art styles of..." |
p. 216, line 13 | "Noltek" | "Nolte" |
p. 244, line 35 | "equal pieces-the first" | "equal pieces--the first" |
p. 261, line 35 | "It stood for..." | "It stands for..." |
p. 290, line8 | "local 1928 of the..." | local 1352 of the..." |
p. 295, line 19 | "you say Kent State." | "you say Kent State,..." |
p. 301, line 35 | "continued to evoked..." | "continued to evoke..." |
p. 359, line 26 | "He would fulsomely explain" | "He would explain..." |
p. 416, line 25 | "Harry Shunsuke Kobayashi" | "Harry Shinsuke Kobayashi" |
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