Word: jargoning
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...first, often hilarious section, they are cast as voyeurs, peering coolly into cages, stop watches and check lists at the ready, to study the sexual behavior of their victims. "Did you record that interaction?" one of them inquires in the ineffable jargon of his craft, as male gorilla approaches female. The analogy between ape and human behavior in this realm is dubious at best, the more so when the subjects are "interacting" not in their natural state but in prison. This portion of Primate makes the Yerkes crowd look like fugitives from a Woody Allen movie...
...huge block party. "We danced those kids and we danced them until they fell over. We didn't stop until they were so exhausted they couldn't have picked up a bottle to throw to save their lives. We were holding this city together with bubble gum." In campaign jargon, this is "keeping the city quiet...
What Stockwell wants and MacCracken resisted is the addition of political emphases to traditional relief work. Using the latest ecumenical Newspeak, Stockwell urges a major commitment to "justice/liberation/systemic change concerns" and also "education/ conscientization programs" aimed at U.S. churchgoers. Behind the impasto of jargon is the basic idea that traditional relief and development programs serve as a mere "Band-Aid" and fail to remove the political causes of poverty...
...excellent art director, Leon Ericksen, who has constructed an entire casino, brightly seedy and lit like a yellow-fever ward, which Altman populates with 24-hour night people. Their faces are ridden with worry, briefly flush with success. Their babble, their half-heard hopes framed in gambler's jargon, are like the running response of some lost congregation. They are Altman's chorus...
Translated, the jargon charges that there are outrageously few women--undergraduates and especially faculty and administrators--here proportionate to men. It means that the increasing number of older women who are accepted by Radcliffe find themselves being regarded as "role models"--possible links to the future, possible clues to the lot of women in today's world, outside the University's walls. It means that women in each of the Houses have felt compelled to form women's tables, however undirected, in the face of Male Chauvinist Pig counter-dinners. And if it doesn't mean that the Radcliffe Union...