Word: jargoning
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...becomes increasingly involved with the record business, he is meeting more 'artists,' and is becoming himself commercially conscious, now and then slipping into the jargon of managers and agents. Now that managers and the prospect of a record contract have entered his life, his concerns have become those of a professional musician...
...color plates (Abrams; $35). The other, the show's catalogue, is by Art Historian Eugene Goossen. It is what museum introductions should be but rarely are-warm and scholarly, steadily focused on Kelly's own experiences and their growth into form, and mercifully free from the imbricated jargon of formalist criticism...
...During the period that I was the director of a naval industrial-relations department, I knew of and shared in the T.A. programs. I found them to be of great value in assisting us in the improvement of human relationships. The direct language of T.A., uncluttered with technical jargon, was one of Berne's great contributions to psychiatry; people quickly appreciated his meaning and soon made use of his ideas...
...concrete strip amid puffs of blue smoke, the planes taxied over to ground personnel for a routine "disarming" check. Then they roared to a halt at their stations on the flightline. Precisely 16 minutes before the deadline, the two A-7s of flight mission "Slam" had, in cold service jargon, expended the last American ordnance in Cambodia...
...bugged for general conversations among persons on the premises. Alexander Butterfield told the Ervin committee that the bugs were voiceactivated, a term which means that a tape starts running as soon as someone speaks. But TIME has learned that his testimony was incorrect. Voice-activated recording (VOX in the jargon of the snooper's trade) has one major drawback: a slight time lag between the beginning of conversation and the start of recording. As part of the quest for simple, sure fidelity, Nixon's mikes were activated whenever he entered one of the bugged rooms. Strategically placed locator...