Word: jargoning
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...student. They were soon dismayed to find him neglecting past allegiances and expressing ideas of furious originality. He was universal in influence and appeal-yet he was heavily Teutonic in style and thought. His philosophical parents were the aphoristic Nietzsche and Kierkegaard. Yet Heidegger's own writings are jargon-filled and obscure-so much so that Novelist Günter Grass parodied them in Dog Years as a symptom of Germany's political disintegration...
...book (the manuscript is dedicated to him). And in one oddly placed threepage section we get an introductory American government syllabus including statements on the growth of the imperial presidency, reduced prestige of the cabinet, decline of political parties, weakening of congressional leadership, and nosediving voter turnout. The jargon is stulifying; instead of simply writing that Johnson faced an uphill campaign battle in 1968, she states that "one of the constitutional checks on executive power remained intact: the requirement of periodic elections." Governmental terms, distributed sloppily throughout the book seem thrown in to make the manuscript suitable for tenure purposes...
...they might want to know about sex, psychosurgery, biofeedback, insomnia, ultradian rhythms-indeed the whole galaxy of behavioral phenomena, from alienation to Zen. The magazine's success is due largely to its editor in chief and resident visionary since 1969, T (for nothing) George Harris. He turned a jargon-pocked and profitless publication into a Popular Mechanics of human behavior-eminently readable, visually stimulating and worth more than $2 million a year in net profit for its present owner, Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., which bought the magazine...
...late one night asked Grunwald to green a story. "Perhaps he was testing me," recalls Grunwald today. TIME was later to test Boyd when he was told to become a computer expert and lead us into what Grunwald describes as the "promised land of interface and input" sans the jargon. We are almost there today, thanks to Boyd, who developed a sophisticated computer-driven editing and typesetting system that processes copy at a 4,200-word-per-minute clip. Actually, Boyd retired once before, but was asked to come back. His second retirement date seems scarcely more credible than...
...cryptic, demotic jargon-and the Arkahoma accent in which it is invariably delivered no matter where in the U.S.-may seem outlandish to many. If so, they had better hang easy and adjust to it. From 8 to 10 million more CB sets will be sold in 1976, which with extra equipment could amount to some $2.5 billion worth-nearly as much as total sales of TV sets. One of the biggest manufacturers, Hy-Gain Electronics Corp. (maker of Betty Ford's rig), reported that 1976 first-quarter sales quintupled those for the same period...