Word: jargoning
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AMERICA HURRAH. Jean-Claude van Itallie melds pop art and the theater of cruelty as he leads his audience through a modern Inferno of cocktail parties, urban herds, politics, psychoanalytic jargon and motels...
...institute seeks to stimulate creative Christian thinking on urban problems through weekend seminars that are open to outsiders. The seminars are larded with the institute's particular jargon-mind-set and imaginal education are favorite words-and faculty members rely on shock tactics to make listeners aware of the church's crisis situation. "When are you going to stop prettying up the heroes of the church so that people will know what kind of men they were?" demanded Lay Faculty Member Joe Pierce at one seminar. "Martin Luther? He was three sheets to the wind on German beer...
...story begins with Michael Wood, who was NSA director for development in 1965-66. Wood was "not-witty" -- spy jargon meaning the CIA had not informed him of the bond between the two organizations. He had learned about it privately from Phil Sherburne, then president of NSA and now at Harvard Law School...
...what had become an annual routine for top N.S.A. officials: they told him that he would have access to important facts about the organization if he would sign the security pledge. He agreed. First, he learned that he had been judged "witty" (CIA jargon for the one who passes security clearance) and second, that nearly all of N.S.A.'s funds came from "the firm" (code slang...
...involve the schizophrenic in a relationship that means something to him." Dr. Laing, 38, does not claim to have originated this idea. It traces back to the brilliant American psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949), whose theories have been neglected partly because he wrote in obscure jargon. Sullivan blamed emotional problems on difficulties in "interpersonal relationships," then defined "a person" not as a person in the usual sense but as a social concept. Starting from that, Dr. Laing sees the schizophrenic as an individual who has had trouble fitting into the social concepts dinned into him from infancy...