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...intended reader-an auto mechanic in his 40s, with children. books in his den. and perhaps the question, "With a library down the street, why do we need an encyclopedia?" First, the student must set down short answers to a battery of questions framed in the special Van Nostrand jargon: What is the reader's "frame of reference"? What is the "organizing idea" (theme) of the paragraph? What "set of information" (facts) will be worked into the paragraph? Only after dutifully outlining the requirements can the student begin to write. When he is finished, he must analyze the paragraph...
...start with MIRVs, MARVs, SLBMs, ALCMs and ICBMs. Then add "counterforce," "mutual assured destruction" and "first-strike capability." All this is part of the mind-numbing, acronymic jargon used in the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (known for short as SALT). Although the vocabulary is impenetrable, except to think-tank experts, and the concepts are often Strangelovean, the complex SALT negotiations may yet turn out to be the most important of the century. Herewith a primer of key questions and answers...
Sampson's noticeable lack of Houdini jargon and techniques emphasize his desire to take the occult out of this mysterious art. "Hypnosis goes by a variety of different names; it is a coin phrase. For me, hypnosis is nothing more than the accentuation of concentration while in a state of relaxation, and generally speaking this is what I help people to do, to better utilize their existing potential," he says...
...certain periods, the Inquisition considered homoerotic activity as prima facie evidence of demonic possession. These good Christians also possessed effective therapies with which to exorcize sexual demons; however, rather than such clumsy jargon as "behavior modification," they (like the Gestapo) employed more forthright terms ... and methods...
...When he came to the White House, Berlin was a flash point for World War III, and there were 500,000 American troops in Viet Nam. There was little American presence or influence in the Middle East outside of Israel, no relations with Communist China, and cold-war jargon dominated any dialogue with Moscow...