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  Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa - DiscoverNikkei.org
Born in Vancouver, Canada to Japanese immigrant parents, Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa was a college professor who achieved national recognition in the United States as a semanticist, college president and U.S. Senator from California.
Hayakawa was a resident of Mill Valley, California until his death in 1992 of Alzheimer's disease.
In 1983 Hayakawa -- born in Canada and a naturalized U.S. citizen since 1955 -- founded U.S. English, the oldest, largest citizens' action group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States.
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  S. I. Hayakawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (July 18, 1906 – February 27, 1992) was an English professor and academic who served as a United States Senator from California from 1977 to 1983.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he was educated in the public schools of Calgary and Winnipeg, Canada; received his undergraduate degree from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg in 1927; graduate degrees in English from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 1928, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1935.
Hayakawa founded the political lobbying organization U.S. English, which is dedicated to making the English language the official language of the United States.
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 Knowledge King - Samuel I. Hayakawa   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (July 18, 1906-February 27, 1992) was an English professor and academic who served as a United States Senator from California from 1977 to 1983.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1906, he was educated in the public schools of Calgary and Winnipeg, Canada; received his undergraduate degree from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg in 1927; graduate degrees in English from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1928 and University of Wisconsin, Madison 1935.
He was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1976 and served from January 3, 1977, to January 3, 1983; and was not a candidate for reelection in 1982.
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 Samuel I. Hayakawa   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hayakawa was a professor at the college when some 500 students went on strike to force their demands for changes to several of the college’s policies, particularly to those with regard to minority groups and fl studies.
Hayakawa, then 62, strode through the protestors, nimbly scrambled to the roof of the vehicle and yanked the wires from the speakers, all of this action recorded on TV and shown that night to millions of people.
The son of Ichiro and Toro Hayakawa, Samuel Ichiye was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1906.
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Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa was born in Vancouver, Canada on July 18, 1906 of Japanese immigrant parents, Ichiro and Toro Hayakawa.
Hayakawa served as an instructor of English at the University of Wisconsin from 1936 to 1939.
In 1976 Dr. Hayakawa was elected to the U.S. Senate from California as a Republican.
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 Samuel Hayakawa   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (July 18, 1906 - February 27, 1992) wasan English professor and academic who served as a United StatesSenator from California from 1977 to 1983.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1906, he was educated in the public schools of Calgary and Winnipeg, Canada; received his undergraduate degree from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg in 1927; graduate degrees inEnglish from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1928 and University of Wisconsin, Madison 1935.
He was elected as a Republican tothe United States Senate in 1976 and served from January 3, 1977, to January 3, 1983; and was not a candidate for reelection in1982.
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 Centennial Historical Presidents: Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
English Professor Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa was appointed as acting president of the strife-torn SF State campus in 1968.
By his strong opposition to the strike, Hayakawa made himself one of the most visible and controversial university presidents of the century.
Hayakawa was a renowned semanticist; his first book on the subject, "Language in Thought and Action," was a Book of the Month Club selection in 1941.
www.sfsu.edu /~100years/history/hayakawa.htm   (142 words)

  
 Hayakawa, Samuel I. --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
A well-respected writer on semantics, Samuel Hayakawa served as president of San Francisco State College before his election to the United States Senate in 1976.
Samuel Ichiyé Hayakawa was born on July 18, 1906, in Vancouver, B.C. Hayakawa immigrated to the United States in 1929 and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin…
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 HRE :: Op/Ed   (Site not responding. Last check: )
To seek less is to invite rifts and schisms that could eventually pull our nation apart, the same forces that we see urging cultural separatism in our neighbor to the north, Canada, a struggle for independence based primarily on an issue of language.
Born in Canada to Japanese immigrant parents, Hayakawa became a scholar of linguistics and semantics, a college president, and a Republican US senator from California before he died in 1992.
Hayakawa's proposed amendment was not ratified, but some states have passed their own English-only initiatives.
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 S. I. Hayakawa -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (July 18, 1906-February 27, 1992) was an English professor and academic who served as a (Click link for more info and facts about United States Senator) United States Senator from (A state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes) California from 1977 to 1983.
He was an instructor at the University of Wisconsin from 1936 to 1939 and at the (Click link for more info and facts about Armour Institute of Technology) Armour Institute of Technology from 1939 to 1947.
Hayakawa served from January 3, 1977 to January 3, 1983, not standing for reelection in 1982.
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 S. I. Hayakawa
Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (1906-1992) was an American educator and US Senator (R., California, 1977-1982).
His 1938 book Language in Thought and Action has been widely read, and is now in its fifth edition.
Hayakawa served as president of San Francisco State College (now University).
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 Essays.cc - Analyis Of English Only Law Essays -- Pro Vs Con
Hayakawa then moves on to his next reason for the adoption of English as the official language, but uses his previous illustration as a stepping-off point.
Hayakawa states this solutions – as well as others – will increase ESL students to jump into the mainstream with other student, making them feel less segregated and will increase their likelihood of receiving post-secondary education and scholarships.
Hayakawa then finishes his essay by bringing up the practice of printing a majority of the ballots in the U.S. in only English and Spanish, labeling it as inherently racist and just another way our country sends an unspoken endorsement of bilingualism.
www.essays.cc /free_essays/f1/txi37.shtml   (1038 words)

  
 In 60 Seconds or Less
Samuel Hayakawa on the influence of television on children.
According to the article, Hayakawa told the American Psychological Association that he sees two primary effects on the youngster whose childhood is spent in front of the tube.
No wonder, then, says Hayakawa, that the same children grow up expecting all problems to have answers that are easy, fast, and require no personal involvement or cost.
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 How to Talk to a Man
Samuel was a college president, U.S. senator, and brilliant linguistic analyst of Japanese origin.
Hayakawa went on, "My remark was admittedly neither original nor well informed." Hundred of radio commentators...were saying much the same thing during those weeks.
There was more to the conversation but the result was, within ten minutes they had invited Hayakawa - whom they initially may have suspected was a Japanese spy - to visit them sometime in their city and have dinner in their home.
www.lovelinkup.net /how_to_talk_to_men.htm   (888 words)

  
 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Permanence for Hayakawa -- Jul. 18, 1969   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hayakawa urged the faculty to fight back—showing himself to be an obvious leader whom the trustees soon picked as acting president.
The panel's findings were addressed to the president, so Hayakawa, in his capacity as acting president, wrote himself an elaborately sarcastic letter, chiding himself for carrying out what he believed to be his duty.
After the trustees' vote, Hayakawa hailed his appointment as "a vote of confidence in my policies in defense of academic freedom." Members of the official S.F. State presidential selection committee, whose nominees had not even been interviewed by the trustees, were not impressed.
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 Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (1906-2000)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hayakawa won fame as a semanticist and President of San Francisco State during the turbulent
Hayakawa won fame as a semanticist and President of San Francisco State during the turbulent 1960s.
He was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate from California and served from 1977 to 1983.
www.havelshouseofhistory.com /catalog/samuel_ichiye_hayakawa__1906-2000__1655148.htm   (117 words)

  
 S.I. (Samuel Ichiye) Hayakawa
S.I. Hayakawa was an outspoken person who helped lead California in the 1960s and 1970s.
Hayakawa made national headlines when he called in police to force protests to stop.
People who disagreed with the protests thought Hayakawa was a hero.
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 Hayakawa: A Summary
Hayakawa's Language in Thought and Action has been one of the course's handbooks for a memorable number of years already, but the manner in which it has been used has changed somewhat over the years.
In what Hayakawa calls intensional orientation, the thought and action of people is conditioned by the (accurate or misleading) image projected by words.
Hayakawa (and a number of other linguists) define irony as saying the opposite of what is actually meant; stude,nts should be able to distinguish this meaning from sarcasm, cynicism and some forms of humour (under- and overstatements, «l'ironie du sort») which are sometimes also covered by the term.
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 Language in Thought and Action :: Language in Thought and Action books, reviews and more
Samuel I Hayakawa Robert MacNeil "Language in Thought and Action".
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 S. I. Hayakawa — FactMonster.com
Son of Japanese immigrant parents, Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa earned a B.A. in English from the University of Manitoba in 1927, an M.A. in English from McGill University in Montreal in 1928, and a Ph.D. in English and American literature from the University of Wisconsin in 1935.
Hayakawa taught English at the University of Wisconsin until 1939, when he became an associate professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he worked until 1947.
In 1976 Hayakawa was elected to the U.S. Senate.
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 The Book Of THoTH - The Human Condition - The Players of Null-A
In 1943 Hayakawa founded the International Society for General Semantics (which in 2003 merged with the organization founded by Korzybski himself, called the Institute of General Semantics and afforded a world-ruling position in Van Vogt's books.)
Hayakawa came to national attention in 1968, when he became the interim Dean of beleaguered San Francisco State College, after the previous dean resigned in the midst of heavy student protest.
In his introduction and apologia to the 1970 re-edition of "The World of Null-A", Van Vogt stresses Hayakawa's use of General Semantics techniques to successfully deal with the riots, meeting the "honest demands of people with genuine grievances" and quelling the violence with overwhelming police presence.
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 Science and Sanity - Alfred Korzybski
Hayakawa became a U. Senator for California, and Rapoport a pioneering professor of mathematics, applying it to biology and to the theory of social conflicts.
Their books in turn encouraged me to take an interest in the philosophical foundations of science: some of the works of Bertrand Russell, A. Whitehead, and Ludwig Wittgenstein; and in logical positivism and empiricism in general.
Hayakawa's recollections in interview form ("oral history") of his time with Korzybski are illuminating and amusing.
www.zenker.se /Books/korzybski.shtml   (952 words)

  
 National Constitution Center - Centuries of Citizenship - Senator S.I. Hayakawa proposes amendment establishing English ...
Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, a professor of English at San Francisco State University, became university president in 1968, at the height of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
The right to free speech, he believed, is balanced against the rights of others to pursue their lives and studies without disruption.
As a result of his actions, Hayakawa became a well-known – and popular – figure.
www.constitutioncenter.org /timeline/html/cw12_12305.html   (212 words)

  
 Newspaper Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: )
President Hayakawa was the choice of the Chancellor, the Trustees, and the Governor (Ronald Reagan).
He saw his task as quelling the disturbances and getting the campus back to "normal."Like those who selected him, he was slow to realize that "normal" was changing.
Throughout the most turbulent times, day-to-day administration of the campus and the planning of responses to the threats of disruption, or violence, fell to the three vice presidents: Donald Garrity, Vice President of Academic Affairs; Glenn P. Smith, Vice President for Business and Administration; and Fred Reddell, Vice President for Student Affairs.
www.library.sfsu.edu /strike/case4.html   (1247 words)

  
 More on names, assimilation, and American identity
"Hayakawa," "Frelinghuysen," and so forth consist of letter combinations that are readily pronouncible in English.
The bottom line is, one looks at this name appearing in the by-line of an article and hasn't the slightest notion of how to pronounce it.
It is understandable that people's family names will be more foreign depending on their background, but first names are generally chosen to fit the culture of one's country.
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 Permanence for Hayakawa - TIME
In suppressing bloody disorders, Hayakawa both entranced millions of outsiders and embittered his faculty and students.
What transformed Hayakawa was his gut reaction to one of the worst campus situations in U.S. history.
Hayakawa urged the faculty to fight back—showing himself to be an obvious leader whom the trustees soon picked as acting president.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,901065-1,00.html   (550 words)

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