Word: jargoning
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RUSSIA AT WAR: 1941-45, by Alexander Werth. A Russian-born British journalist who was on the spot has compiled the most complete English-language history to date of the titanic struggle with Germany. Though the account sometimes leans too heavily on official Soviet explanations-and jargon-the canvas is vast and the details often fascinating...
...years, the Order of the Coif* has awarded coveted gold Coif Keys to some of the country's brightest law students. Last week the legal fraternity began honoring another kind of excellence: legal writing. The need is clear. At its jargon-free best, legal literature inspires the court decisions that shape U.S. society. Yet legal writers usually toil obscurely for arcane law reviews. Even when they publish books, their reward is likely to be petty cash and a paucity of public praise...
...inquiry into a case of child buying, in which a parade of witnesses relate their roles in the affair. This woe fully static device comes down to describing the play that isn't there. Along the way, Shyre and Hersey plunk paper bullets into pre-perforated targets-the jargon of educationists, the corrupting TV-loot mentality, the jingoistic powerelites of government, business and education. There is one brief moment of absurdly human pathos when the boy himself (Brian Chapin) agrees to go with the child buyer in the hope that "some day, I might achieve an IQ of over...
From the superb scenes of war, insurrection, interrogation and factory work to the jargon of "Marxist selfcriticism" sessions, Communist life has rarely been subjected to such a panoramic survey by such a merciless pen. But Author
Pushers. Shuman felt, moreover, that the Government was making hopheads of the farmers as well. "I think Government payments have something in common with the narcotics habit," he said. "Once on the habit, the victim becomes convinced he cannot live without the drug. In the jargon of the underworld, he's hooked. He'll do most anything to get his next fix, his next check. The pushers, in this case the Government bureaucrats and committees, constantly work to get more farmers hooked and dependent on payments." The upshot, Shuman said, "is very simple: the more that are hooked...