Word: jargoning
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...discovered that a yacht race rarely measures up in excitement to any old sixth at Belmont. Worse yet, most of the 241 reporters and photographers (44 papers, four press associations, 23 magazines) who uneasily went down to the sea in ships were landlubbers with no tongue for salty jargon...
...cell (he is to be tried for murder). As far as erotic detail is concerned, the book tells little that has not been dealt with in a lot of bestselling fiction; but where the sexy bestsellers talk about the sordid or tragic facts of life in staccato sociology, couch jargon or four-letter words, Lolita is the more shocking because it is both intensely lyrical and wildly funny. It is (in many of its pages) a Medusa's head with trick paper snakes, and its punning comedy as well as its dark poetics will disappoint the smut hounds...
...Britain's Macmillan, France's De Gaulle, India's Nehru and U.N. Dag Hammarskjold. Surprisingly missing from his invitation list: Mao and Nasser. Every word in the Soviet strong man's message, which bore the sound of his own bluff rhetoric rather than Foreign Ministry jargon, conveyed a sense of urgency: "The guns are already beginning to shoot . . . this awesome moment in history . . . We propose meeting any day and any time-and the sooner the better . . . The world is on the brink of catastrophe...
...Wall Street jargon, a "free rider'' in Government bonds is a speculator who buys into a new issue of Governments-often on margins as low as 5%-and hopes they will rise a point so that he can get out with a quick killing. The big advantage is that he can put up only $5,000 to get $100,000 worth of bonds; if the bonds advance a point-as they often do shortly after issue-the free rider can sell at a profit of $1,000. The danger is that the bonds also can go down. Last...
Clarity & Point. The secret of Sylvia Porter's success is that she writes of complex financial matters in terms that Everyman can understand, shuns the jargon of the financial specialist (which many a businessman-though loath to admit it-does not understand too well himself). She constantly redefines technical terms, turns complex concepts into housewifely images. "I write for a faceless image of myself," says she. "I figure if I'm interested in a subject, other people will...