Word: jargoning
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...kind of odyssey via Volkswagen, the four intellectuals drive to Leslie's funeral in Brooklyn, a voyage of selfdiscovery. Spouting psychoanalytical jargon, needling one another and everybody else, the Volkswagen men bumble through Brooklyn, pulling at a bottle of whisky, stopping at intermittent bars, where they are worsted by all the local Cyclops and Circes. Finally, they barge into the funeral parlor, snort, giggle and guffaw over the rabbi's sermon-obviously they knew Leslie so much better than the rabbi ever did. They file past the bier, peer in -whoops, the cadaver is not Leslie. Wrong funeral...
...most inveterate book buyers, by age, belong to the 18-to-34 age group, known in market-research jargon as "the age of acquisition"; roughly half of them bought at least one book in the past month...
Himself a dabbler in real estate, Shakespeare was fascinated with property jargon. He often speaks of "purchase"-a then new method of acquiring land by other means than inheritance. Henry IV reminds his son that the crown that "in me was purchas'd, falls upon thee in a more fairer sort" (Shakespeare's way of saying that the king usurped the crown). In The Merry Wives of Windsor, the devil holds Sir John Falstaff in "fee-simple" (complete ownership). In Troilus and Cressida, even Greeks and Trojans talk in terms of "fee-form" (tenure without limit). "Lease...
...Detroit Free Lancer J. Edward Bailey, 40, who does much of TIME'S photographic work in the Detroit area. Once he had the assignment, Ed Bailey read up on automobile styling over a period of two months, digging into books and pamphlets and learning to toss off inside jargon like "Di-Noc" and "frisket knife." Before he took a picture, he spent five days at the four auto manufacturers' studios, testing lighting for color film and filters used under artificial light mixed with daylight. Then he worked for 22 days in the auto design centers with seven cameras...
...Freud, who made man a prisoner of his instincts. According to Barzun, there are not two warring cultures, as set forth in C. P. Snow's famed thesis. The war is over and science has won. The humanities have succumbed. The spurious social sciences with their lifeless jargon dominate modern thought; the arts have become analytical and overly abstract; the common tongue is bland and depersonalized...