Word: jargoneers
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...Washington-based ticket agent: "We'll lose less money competing than we would if we didn't. Even though you might be a loser, you lose less." The big lines, in fact, may gain rather than lose. Laker hopes that the bargain fares will be, in the jargon of the industry, "generative" rather than "diversionary." That is, they will not merely switch passengers from high-fare to low-fare flights but tempt into the air people who would otherwise not fly at all. Wall Street analysts believe just that may happen...
...component of any Le Carré novel is its jargon-the trade terms used by secret service personnel. His invented spy lingo is so persuasive that it has convinced readers that spies actually talk that way. As a matter of fact, sometimes they do. According to their inventor, such Le Carré words as mole and honey trap have been co-opted by British and Russian spies; others are rapidly entering the language. Among them...
...Durrell is an endlessly inventive entertainer to bring along on a trip. Among his companions: Deeds, a former Indian army officer and Desert Rat, who speaks a jargon of 1940 Cairo; and the Anglican bishop, who has developed Doubts-"an evident Pauline-type neurosis which is almost endemic in the Church of England, and usually comes from reading Lady Chatterley's Lover in paperback." There is also the insufferable Bed-does, a cashiered prep school teacher obscurely on the lam, who mutters cracks about Alcibiades being a queer. A French couple reminds Durrell of "very cheap microscopes...
...starts by passing around photos of his dead fiancee for general approbation. As a catalytic agent full of "power of positive thinking" jargon, he soon reduces everyone either to tears or to hysterics. With blithe incomprehension, he unmasks torpedoed marriages, a joyless adulteress (Dale Hodges), blasted careers, lace-curtain carnage...
...trying to have it both ways, Playboy and Penthouse try to distance themselves from their gamier rivals. Both run serious critical departments on films, books and records. Playboy carries fiction, though not often the best work, by top writers, who are paid top prices because their presence, in the jargon of Hollywood, "authenticates" the magazine...