Word: jargon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...necessary, according to Ionesco, because the metaphysical truths expressed by the new philosophers will rise above ideological dogma and be naturally understood by the masses. These ideas will supercede even such bourgeois inventions as language and literature themselves, which Ionesco in his plays shows to be filled with media-jargon and platitudes that hinder communication...
Fifteen years have passed since Willem de Kooning, one of the last patriarchs of abstract expressionism, moved out of Manhattan to live and work near East Hampton, among the flat green potato fields and salty inlets of Long Island. This span of time was for him, in the jargon of art history, a "period." His manner of painting changed, becoming looser, splashier, more atmospheric than it had ever been before. The drawing loosened too, and the place supplied him with a different subject matter-a landscape of dunes and water reflections, green groves and pink bodies half eroded by light...
...pilot reporting a "kill" during a training mission-tells much about modern air combat and why the planes best at it are in demand. Translated, the pilot's message is that his radar has locked onto an enemy plane-a "Judy" in U.S. airmen's jargon-67° to the right of his aircraft and that the missile he fired sent the enemy spiraling into the sea. Flying at speeds of up to 2,000 m.p.h.-33 miles a minute-the pilot got his splash faster than it took him to tell about...
...lectures. That was not surprising. The tour was being guided by two outfits that run the Marxist indoctrination program inside the country, the Ethiopian Revolutionary Information Committee (ERIC) and the Provisional Office for Mass Organizational Affairs (POMOA). Explained one official: "Ninety-five percent of Ethiopia is illiterate, and this jargon stuff is designed to try to communicate some very complex ideas to them. I'm sorry it's being used on you as well." The argument did not go down well with a disgruntled Soviet correspondent, who might have been expected to be more tolerant of the relentless...
These are amiable qualities for the computer; it imitates life like an electronic monkey. As computers get more complex, the imitation gets better. Finally, the line between the original and the copy becomes blurred. In another 15 years or so-two more generations of computer evolution, in the jargon of the technologists-we will see the computer as an emergent form of life...