Word: jargoning
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Aside from the Hickman scenes, Basic Training, produced, directed and edited by Frederick Wiseman, shares the same Virtues and short-comings of other Wiseman films. If it does give you a feeling for army life, it gives none of the motivating sense, only the jargon and defenses used in training camp...
Whatever Swanson's faults may be, inconsistency is not one of them. To match his imaginative (if not factual) diagnosis, he includes a suitable cure. What the workers require is more "militant class consciousness." Whatever he means by this Marxist jargon is not explicitly stated, but it indicates that he is as ignorant of the conditions of working people in socialist countries as he is of them in his own. For the Russian worker, certainly the most militantly class conscious of all, is denied the very right to strike. And surely even Swanson knows something about his living conditions. Lawrence...
...Land, a quietly radical book about the public schools in America. Its author, James Herndon, is a junior high school teacher describing his loose and open-ended classes in San Francisco, where his students choose how to spend their time in school. Herndon is not one of those new jargon-spouting teachers hell-bent on encouraging their youngsters' creativity with some or other technique they were exposed to, but never understood, in graduate school. Those teachers mistake novelty for innovation, and spend a good deal of their time contriving projects to stimulate their classes. Let the children choose, they...
...Housewife Judy Meredith of Boston explains it, is how she and her husband-both white-came to adopt a 13-month-old Indian called Tommy and a two-week-old black baby named Jackie. The Merediths' decision is part of a growing phenomenon known in sociologist's jargon as transracial adoption. Last year 2,200 black babies were adopted by white U.S. families, compared with only 700 in 1968. Today there are more than 10,000 "T.R.A. families" in all 50 states and in the ten Canadian provinces...
THINKING back to the early '60s, Reporter-Researcher Sydnor Vanderschmidt recalls the difficulties that "space journalism" had in getting off the ground: "When the space age began, it seemed that no one was prepared to interpret the developments for a general audience. The scientists used incomprehensible jargon, and a typical reporter's question was 'How in the world does that satellite stay up there?' " Since then, Syd observes, "newsmen have acquainted themselves with orbital mechanics, and the scientists have finally learned to speak English...