Word: gobbledygook
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Should Every Boy Read? The result of all this piffle is that more and more teachers are swallowing the idea that subject matter is no longer important. They have distorted Dewey's "interest psychology" into an excuse for dumping almost anything intellectual, have taken the gobbledygook of Columbia's William Heard Kilpatrick as gospel. "As I look out on life," said Kilpatrick, "I find a lot of people who don't use arithmetic; and I don't think that life would be any richer for them if they used it." Echoed the principal of a Champaign...
...read with interest your June 8 article, "Memories Before Birth?" With psychiatry entering into all phases of human life, psychological gobbledygook has finally reached the end of the line. Et tu, fetus...
...once flabbergasted the officials of a busy bank by crawling about on his hands and knees, searching for fossils in the marble wall. Though a tough teacher (during an examination he strolled among his students whistling Have You Forgotten So Soon?), he had an unorthodox contempt for scientific gobbledygook: "If it looks like a dog, smells like a dog and bites me," he would say, "well, I call...
...bribe offer. And last week the bar-brothel where the baby had been found lost its liquor license. Crowed Tommy Stern's Item: "The Picayune complained . . . that the revenue department investigation 'benefited the Item to the exclusion of other media of public expression.' Cleared of gobbledygook, this means if the Picayune and States had been let in on the investigation, it would have smelled like a rose...
...find your recent gobbledygook about Gnosticism revolting. You and the Pope can play God if you want to, but whether or not man can ultimately attain perfection is far beyond the depth of either of you, let alone anything to do with newsreporting...