Word: jargoning
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...accuses the world's rapidly increasing population of social scientists of writing more and more about less and less. Their work, he says, is boring, misleading, pseudoscientific and trivial, and amounts to little more than "ponderous restatements of the obvious" masked by a "smoke screen of jargon." In fact, Andreski suggests, little has been added to man's knowledge about himself since the death in 1903 of the English social philosopher Herbert Spencer...
That conclusion alone would provoke angry debate among educators, but in reaching it, Jencks makes many other astonishing assertions as well. His book seems destined to be the most controversial educational topic of the season, despite its jargon-laden prose and myriad detailed footnotes. "A fact for nearly every occasion," quips Jencks, and he adds cheerfully: "I think it's safe to assume that we will be decried on all sides...
...ONCE PAST basic requirements of grammar, books on Vietnam are no longer (if they ever were) expected to be particularly polished. Almost anything is an improvement over the jargon pervading the documents that constitute the Pentagon Papers. Papers on the War is comprehensible, and at times rather well written...
...same time, one deeply committed activist in the cause of Soviet Jews-and of freedom in Russia-was being subjected to increasingly ominous pressure. Physicist Valery Chalidze, a leader of the unauthorized "Human Rights Committee," has twice been summoned by the KGB and threatened with "repression"-secret-police jargon for imprisonment. This action, in the wake of the arrest of Dissident Pyotr Yakir (TIME, July 3), suggested that the next target would be the leading member of the committee, the world-famous nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov...
Chile's economic stagnation has been caused mainly by overzealous nationalization. Thus far about 250 firms have been taken over; many were "intervened" (as Chilean official jargon puts it) in the wake of often phony labor disputes or charges that production is faltering. Hundreds of foreign technicians have left the country, contributing to a sharp drop in productivity. In the nationalized copper industry, Chile's largest source of income, production this year is projected only marginally higher than last, despite a plant-capacity increase...