Word: jargoning
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...another] magazine . . . I was thoroughly convinced at that time of the scientific unsoundness of his writing . . . Every person of intelligence should be indignant at the thought of anyone deliberately promoting national hysteria, based on the hallucinations of people who will swallow any fantasy thinly veiled in pseudo-scientific jargon...
...Alvin Johnson, the best place for such men & women is the expanding field of adult education. There, he believes, they can use their talents freely ("no roll calls, no fool examinations, no bibliographies that no one ever reads, no jargon that no one ever understands") and still not stand in the way of promotion for younger teachers...
...sweat or shiver in terror. Once these painful engrams have been run through the waking analytical mind, says Hubbard, they lose their "charge"-their power of evil. The analytical mind puts them in a dead file like so many closed accounts. The final goal of dianetics-in its own jargon-is to make the patient a "clear," a person whose every engram has been resolved...
With the groundwork laid for schizophrenia, or at feast amnesia, the plot switches to Gaslight: Claudette, it turns out, is the victim of an elaborate frame-up. After using a lot of fancy psychiatric jargon in analyzing the heroine's condition, the script finally reveals the villain as melodrama's oldfashioned "mad fiend." Still unsolved: Who framed Actress Colbert into the role...
Tall, slender, bespectacled Ring Lardner, 34, grew up in Great Neck, Long Island, went to Andover and Princeton. At home Ring Sr. never discussed political issues, but the sardonic views that salted his writings also flavored his conversation. Or as his friend Heywood Broun put it, in the jargon of their set: "Under an insulation of isolation and indifference, Ring boiled with a passion against smugness and hypocrisy and the hard heart of the world...