Word: gobbledygook
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...Highbrow gobbledygook of the week (from Hemingway: The Writer as Artist, by Professor Carlos Baker of Princeton University): "Despite the insistent, denotative matter-of-factness at the surface of the presentation, the subsurface activity of A Farewell to Arms is organized connotatively around two poles. By a process of accrual and coagulation, the images tend to build round the opposed concepts of Home and Not-Home. Neither, of course, is truly conceptualistic; each is a kind of poetic intuition, charged with emotional values and woven, like a cable, of many strands...
...Joseph Stalin has the most power and publicly says the least. Last week he broke a year's silence. Bolshevik, the party's leading double-dome magazine on matters of Communist theology, published a 50-page memorandum from Stalin. Its very title gave promise of the grey gobbledygook that was to come: "Economic Problems of Socialism to Participants in Economics Discussions." But Pravda acclaimed Stalin's message as "the greatest event in the ideological life of the party and the Soviet people," and printing presses began rolling out 1,500,000 copies. The rest of the world...
...Washington, the up-to-date word for gobbledygook is "bafflegab." Last week a speech by an NPA official on materials allocations furnished a prime example...
Home from the political wilderness last week came 69,000 Japanese who were banned from public office by General MacArthur 5½ years ago. The "depurgees" (as they were labeled in army gobbledygook) : former leaders of certain nationalistic organizations and onetime "undesirables" from the press, radio and motion picture industries...
...board's majority report announced, in explanation: "We are fully aware that this decision looks in the direction of a general policy." While vague, this gobbledygook could not honestly be considered incomprehensible. Presumably, the board would not want any of its decisions looking around in vain, and when decision looked in the direction of policy, policy would look burningly back in the direction of decision. Or in other words, we don't mean to be starting something...