Word: jargoning
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Though a career diplomat, Lane has written a blunt and frank report. Where it falls down badly is in the writing. Lane uses that jargon habitual to diplomats, a dialect sometimes confused with English, which makes his occasional revelations seem as blandly dull as his report of an exchange of diplomatic amenities...
With an occasional exception, the writing does not shine. Exceptions: George Orwell's deadly attack on the gibberish-jargon of political and literary cliche-journalism, calculated to give hacks the world over the stammers and the shakes; Dylan Thomas' intoxicated poetry, difficult and dense but flashing sparks of overwhelming insight...
...realism, This Time Tomorrow is almost void of sense; as symbolism, it is by no means rich in suggestion. All cluttered up with blackouts, electrical storms, laboratory rats, hypnotic trances, scientific jargon and mystical plumage, it may, and then again may not, be deep; but there is no doubt whatever that it is dull...
Lucky Forward is likely to please only those who want to make a legend of Patton. Essentially it is a rewrite of Headquarters section reports into a kind of headline-writer's jab-&-smash jargon. It is jerky, often ungrammatical, unblushingly awkward: "The enemy's vitals had been pierced. An Armored poniard was stabbed squarely in the middle of his rear and athwart his main line of communications. . . . The enemy was beset from every quarter in a welter of triphammer blows, chaos, death, and destruction. On the ground and in the air he was mauled and ravaged from...
With erudition, good humor and skill, Lewis is writing about religion for a generation of religion-hungry readers brought up on a diet of "scientific" jargon and Freudian cliches. His readers are a part of the new surge of curiosity about Christianity which in Britain has floated, besides Lewis, a whole school of literary evangelists (T. S. Eliot, Graham Greene, Dorothy Sayers, et al.). Detective Story Writer Sayers has explained this new interest in Christianity as "spontaneous . . . and not a sort of 'Let's-get-together-and-pep-up-Christianity' stunt by excited missioners, than which nothing...