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...James Arness is a hard-riding surfer who has instilled a keen enthusiasm for the sport in his son Rolf, 18. Says young Arness: "You can get so stoked [deliriously happy] on waves that you can't stand it." His father knows the feeling-and the surfers' jargon. When his bov called from Melbourne, Australia, with the news that he had been crowned world surfboard champion, Big Jim answered, "Son, I'm stoked...
...over the past eleven years. In a new book called Human Sexual Inadequacy (Little, Brown; $12.50), Dr. Masters and Mrs. Johnson summarize their therapeutic approach to the problem of what they call sexual "dysfunction." Written in less than six weeks, the book is poorly organized and clotted with a jargon that makes it almost unreadable for all but the doctors, psychologists, marriage counselors and other professionals for whom it was intended. Nonetheless, the work is already a bestseller, and with some reason. In the underdeveloped field of sex research, the authors are pioneers; they are the most important explorers since...
...outmoded Marxism, is relentlessly conventional and conformist. The same phrases -"up against the wall," "get the pigs," "tell it like it is" -are endlessly repeated, less for their intrinsic eloquence than for their emotive and symbolic value. And that sort of thing gets tiresome; to borrow from the jargon, it "turns people off." Even the most outrageous obscenities lose their impact when they are used ad nauseam...
Wheelis interrupts his story a number of times with general discussions of personal inertia, freedom and will. Because these talks are jargon-free and meditative in tone, they do not distract from the fictional narrative. If anything, they heighten the reader's involvement in a story written with exceptional economy and tact...
READING the literature of Scientology, one appreciates the grandeur and intricacy of Hubbard's worldview. No longer is he offering a theory of electromagnetic memory units, complete with pseudo-scientific jargon. Now-now, we are tantalized by visions of super-beings who can perform miracles, travel without regard for space or time, direct energy flows of colossal potency, and who act out an inter-galactic drama complete with telepathy, wave guns, force fields, treachery, annihilation, and enslavement of entire planets and species...