Word: jargoning
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...types and civil rights activists. Rather, he feels that it was some interaction between person and situation that determined what form behavior took. What raises Coles's book far above the level of an interesting series of case studies is the warmth of tone, the freedom from specialist jargon and the understanding of differences. Although he is a strong supporter of civil rights, Coles also shows great respect for the traditions of the South...
...seems. At casual glance, the report is organized in proper bureaucratic fashion, and is written in proper sociological jargon. War is not simply an extension of diplomacy, it says, but a society's "principal political stabilizer." It functions as a "generational stabilizer" as well, enabling "the physically deteriorating, older generation to maintain its control of the younger, destroying it if necessary." Because war supplies all these benefits, it is not to be abandoned casually. There must be a "believable life-and-death threat" as a substitute...
Died. Charles W. Morton, 68, humorist and editor; of a heart attack; in London. Creator of the Atlantic's "Accent" column, Morton specialized for 26 years in the slow, cerebral burn with which he seared pampered child stars, jargon-jawed sociologists, and the fractional fantasies of statisticians...
...never leave. A psychiatrist orders a man to be force fed, then smokes a cigarette, dangling the ashes inches away from the funnel that is emptying food into the victim's stomach. A boy who claims that the institute is making his condition worse is answered with evasive jargon from a Kafkaesque staff. The 85-minute film offers no comment and no solution, but in its relentless expose of a present-day snake pit, it deserves to stand with works like Upton Sinclair's The Jungle as an accusation and a plea for reform...
...quite tell: it may also be a "mask of fear" and "the last resort of the non-achiever." This is simply to say what has always been known-that dirty words are not always to be taken literally. As Dr. Hartogs prefers to put it in psychiatric jargon: "Even the crudest obscenities are sometimes circuitous in terms of the patient's true intent." Or the doctor's. Years ago, in his celebrated essay 'Lars Porsena...