Word: jargoning
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...might like to give it a try," he explains. So when a Harvard representative contacted him about the possibility of moving to Cambridge, he decided to come and meet some University officials and hear just what might be expected of a Harvard football coach. He interpreted the administrative jargon about "good teacher" to mean that he was supposed to give men wanting to play football the fundamentals to do so, a lot of practice, and try to see if his team could turn in a good account of itself in competition...
...issue from the Institute, and yet there could be no incident to better illustrate the fundamental nature of the Institute for Advanced Study than this one. Yang and Lee are young men working at the very fronties of one of the most complex areas of study. In the jargon of modern education, Yang is the "teacher," while Lee is the "student," and yet it was the combined work of these two men which won the Prize. This, in brief, is the essence on the Institute...
...learned all the jargon of the art-playwriting cult, read all the books, saw all the shows, talked all the talk, and even became a kind of gigantic eavesdropper upon life, prowling about the streets with his ears constantly straining to hear all the words and phrases of the passing crowd, as if he might hear something that would be rare and priceless, in a play for Professor [Baker's] celebrated course...
...blending jalopy jargon with nuts-and-bolts advice, Hollywood Publisher Robert Petersen has not only rolled his Hot Rod magazine to high success in nine years, but has added five other automobile monthlies (Motor Trend, Motor Life, Car Craft, Rod & Custom, Custom Cars) to his garage. At 31, Pete Petersen is the biggest magazine owner west of the Rockies, boasts the biggest circulation (total: 1,500,000) in the automotive field, and, with a book-publishing business and a nonmechanical magazine called Teen, grosses $6,500,000 a year...
Nutrition experts from 22 Latin American states gathered in Guatemala City last week. Meeting under the joint sponsorship, of the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, their talk was of vitamin A and protein deficiency, carbohydrates and carotene. But behind the technical jargon, each delegate had his own mental case histories of poverty-crippled children back home with grotesquely protruding bellies, infected livers, horny thickening of the palms of their hands. Such symptoms are the result of the starchy foods (yams, corn meal, potatoes, plantains, rice) that make up a child...