Word: jargoning
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Bergman's primary target is the foppish critic (Jarl Kulle) who sniffs out the "personal details" of Felix's life, even appropriates one of his mistresses. He composes critical jargon so dense that he himself cannot penetrate it ("What the hell do I mean by that?"), writes atrocious music, and finally wheedles Felix into playing it. Once compromised, the cellist collapses, corporeally and artistically kaput...
Unfortunately, the book contains far too much social relations jargon and too many statistics to make pleasant light reading. In fact, if Casey Stengel's memoirs were to appear written in the plodding, colorless prose of an introductory mathematics textbook, it would still be difficult to find a book as unrevealing of the author's character as A Profile. Virtually all of Pettigrew's exuberance, humor, and fondness for improbable metaphor has been carefully excluded. Yet if scholarship has supplanted lively writing, the scholarship is always topnotch and usually provocative...
MEMBERS OF THE PRESS CORPS who accompany the President wherever he goes live in a world all their own. They know each other well and speak their own peculiar abbreviations and jargon. As soon as the press plane takes off liquor flows freely from the substantial supply aboard at all times. When the plane touches down at each stop, the members of the press applaud gently in what has become almost a folk custom...
Marxist ideology is widely advertised as the root cause of the current struggle between Russia and Red China. But beneath all the high-flown jargon lies a more concrete basis for conflict. It is the 4,000-mile border the two nations share...
Haunting Danger. Medically both heartburn and acid indigestion are vague terms, as hard to define precisely as to treat effectively. Heartburn ("pyrosis" in medical jargon) is a burning sensation felt somewhere behind the breastbone. In the vast majority of cases, the pain means only that the victim cannot digest food properly because he is emotionally upset, and he may have the pain without food. But there is always the haunting danger that what feels like heartburn may be nature's warning that the coronary arteries are shutting down. Many a man has died of a heart attack soon after...