Word: bafflegab
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...missile on its shoulder. Ustinov plays the President of Concordia, a postage-due-stamp principality with no prince and no principles. At the U.N., given a chance to cast the tie-breaking vote on an important amendment to an amendment, Ustinov abstains because he cannot understand the diplomatic bafflegab in which it is written. The Russians and the Americans present ultimatums: accept massive aid, or else. But dollars and rubles would wreck the Concordian economy, which has operated smoothly for hundreds of years because the money it circulates is worthless. The Concordian leader counters by promoting a romance between Igor...
Against this backdrop of "bafflegab," as Sylvia calls anything the reader cannot be expected to digest without help, her column stood out in bold and refreshing relief. For years she had been explaining the meaning of economics in terms that anyone could understand. Since no one else was doing it, Sylvia had the field to herself. As James A. Wechsler, editor of her base paper, the New York Post, has said: "Sylvia walked into a vacuum...
...interest in a basic commodity: money. She supplies the rest, in a pattern so skillfully simple, informal and clear that it slides readily even into the nonexpert mind. "Increasing productivity" turns into "a bigger output per man per hour." "Discount rate" becomes "borrowing rate." Rather than indulge in bafflegab, Sylvia takes a paragraph to explain the jargon...
...time than Ulysses and Remembrance of Things Past combined. The Cantos are concerned with all history, 20th century history, Pound's personal story, and an eclectic sampling of all he has read. In effect, it is the poetical twin to Finnegans Wake. In sections laden with socio-economic bafflegab, multilingual word play and telegraphic truncations of meaning, the Cantos might as well be Finnegans Wake as far as most readers are concerned. But many of these poems are as water-clear as gin, and just as powerful. The Pisan Cantos, in which humility is cloaked in a language...
waffle. Doubletalk, or sometimes bafflegab. See FOREIGN NEWS, Without Waffle...