Word: jargoning
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REUBEN, REUBEN, by Peter De Vries. This satire of suburbia has a serious mes sage: the commuter's jargon, with its self-analysis and narcissism, is not just a cultivated mannerism but a disease...
...that apply with any exactitude to individuals. Yet hard and useful evidence about the way most people are most likely to act most of the time is slowly being gathered by the young "behavioral sciences" -anthropology, psychology, sociology and related fields. Unhappily, much of the evidence is shrouded in jargon. Happily, nonscholars may turn this week to Human Behavior: An Inventory of Scientific Findings (Harcourt, Brace & World; $11), the first plain-English compendium of behavioral science's best-tested propositions...
...waves on the EEG showed when the sleeper's eyes were moving. Slow eye movements, taking three to four seconds, occurred when the sleeper was moving the position of his body. But rapid, almost flickering eye movements, now abbreviated in the trade jargon to REMs, occurred in varying stretches of five minutes to an hour, several times during a night's sleep. By waking and questioning their subjects after a REM period, the researchers found that they nearly always recalled having just finished a dream. By checking their EEG tracings with what their subjects told them, the Chicago...
...thinkers as Plato, Marx, Tolstoy and Shakespeare. Tutors supervise the work, which is often livened by such guest lecturers as T. S. Eliot, André Malraux, Marc Chagall and Jacques Maritain. To check doctoral theses for accuracy, the committee calls in outside scholars who know the field. To combat jargon, "lay readers" with no expertise make sure that all theses are "interesting and comprehensible to any cultivated person...
Anyway, across a bargaining table, Bridges' politics do not seem to matter. "Harry will make a big speech at the table about Cuba," says Matson Vice President Wayne Horvitz. "We let him talk, and then we get back to business." Bridges explains it all in his own jargon: "There are some labels, Communism and socialism, liberalism and conservatism, that mean something. But Republican and Democrat-those labels don't mean anything. As against talking left and moving right, I think it is more honest to talk right and move right...