Word: jargoning
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...rebels. Dean steals cars where the others are scarcely capable of filching a loaf of bread from an untended grocery. He takes women and abandons them, wrecks Cadillacs for the hell of it. deserts his friends. He talks a blue streak in a syntax-free jumble of metaphysics, hipster jargon, quotations from comic strips and animal gruntings. Describing the skills of a hot saxophonist. Dean cries: "Here's a guy and everybody's there, right? Up to him to put down what's on everybody's mind. He starts the first chorus, then lines...
...members were absent. The opposition challenged Khrushchev's right to preside, and on a vote he was denied the chair. It was taken by Bulganin. Then the opposition launched an attack on Khrushchev's policies, charging him with Trotskyist and rightist peasant deviations. Translated out of Communist jargon, this meant that Khrushchev's foreign policy was too adventuresome, and his opportunistic farm policy would breed a new crop of rich kulaks.* Some Communist sources say that Khrushchev was at one point voted out of his party secretaryship by a combination of Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganovich, Bulganin and Voroshilov...
...renounce their own selves, their personalities. Not realizing that the self develops only in its becoming; i.e., when it is changing, they reject their own character and assume the safe characteristics of the average, the normal, the accepted and expected. But whether or not you can stomach the existentialist jargon, the fact persists that the colleges are turning out uninteresting, unoriginal, indistinguishable armies of these anonymous people...
...pure thriller in many ways, the film cries out for interpretation. This necessity, however, does not in any way detract from the quality of the picture, but in fact adds an extra dimension to its interest. If I may still be permitted to voice a bit of sociological jargon of my own, the story of De Paris seems at bottom to represent the conflict between a very tightly organized society and one of its member who is clearly and deliberately unacceptable...
...Apperception Test) or even the formidable MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory). They often interview their quarry in groups, because there prejudices may be revealed more freely, like confessions at a revival meeting. As with psychologists in other fields, their conclusions often seem to be commonplaces dressed up in Freudian jargon, or else fantastically far reaches, e.g., air conditioning satisfies an unconscious desire to return to the controlled climate of the womb. But to judge from the commercial results, the MR men are right at least part of the time...