Word: jargoning
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...corporate chairman of a fascist media empire." Furthermore, Mrs. Hearst, a regent of the University of California, had helped invest university funds, he said, "in corporations that have interest and do gain profit from robbery, oppression and genocide." As usual, the S.L.A. statement was filled with far-left jargon and was accompanied by the group's standard demand that its propaganda be printed and broadcast in full by Bay Area newspapers and stations. News executives had little choice except to accede to the demand in view of the S.L.A.'s final, chilling admonition concerning its "prisoner of war." Cinque* declared...
Those brave or curious enough to look inside will find lists of anywhere from seven to 23 specific skills in 39 "modules" under seven basic "curriculum areas" (e.g., mathematics, social sciences, art). The wording may well represent a new low in educators' jargon. Skill No. 5 in the basic concepts module in the communications curriculum area, for example, is "oral response on a concrete level using objects." That means, the manual explains helpfully, that a child can "identify a toy car by saying a word, phrase or sentence about...
...this meet. Undoubtedly Essick has prepared a few surprises for the Tigers, but the Crimson will be going with everything in their arsenal. University records should fall, but that will be only a sidelight to the events themselves. Virtually every race promises to be what is known in sports jargon as a "barnburner." The final score may not be close, but the individual races will...
...then perform the necessary calculations in a flash and display the changing patterns on a cathode ray tube, providing a remarkable kaleidoscopic show. Sometimes the counters quickly settle into what Conway calls "still lifes" - stable, unchanging figures, including those known in the game's already rich jargon as "bee hives," 9, "snakes," 10 or "long ships," 11 . At other times the patterns may pulse, like the "traffic lights," which flip-flop between patterns 12 and 13. Other figures, including "gliders" and "spaceships," actually move across the board. Some seem to leave clouds of debris behind in their travels ("puffer...
...Louis XVI table, and he clinches the matter when he stands up to the taunts of her intellectual friends. Out of ignorance he keeps mum at a Christmas soiree while three of these pink-faced friends debate Marx and the Church--they talk hollow-voiced in five syllable jargon and make their points with snaky fingertip gestures. When Simon interrupts to protest their irreverence, they quiz him on his culture, until, failed and furious, he takes a stolid leave...