Word: jargoning
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Children of Vienna is a bitter little tale of conquered Europe's younger generation, its postwar jargon and cynicism and the still unconquered reasons...
...author states that his book is intended for "the more serious general reader," as well as the full-time student of economic problems. But the general reader, in order to understand what all the argument is about, must first be well acquainted with a forbidding amount of technical jargon. It is precisely the serious but uninitiated reader who will be most easily confused by a barrage of professional patois. After Ec A, Professor Hansen's latest book would be easy sailing. Unfortunately, most Congressmen have never undergone even that much introductory training...
...both weak. The story, which concerns the revelation of a crime committed by a just-buried and much-respected member of a farm community, is clumsy and underdeveloped. The author, who is anonymous, handles the dialogue with assurance, but otherwise his style is labored and often descends to jargon. A. G. Haas, who reviews 'It Happened at the Inn," seems unable to control a breakaway imagination. In discussing an innocuous, modest film he manages not only to give a short history of French and Russian motion pictures but to drag in such assorted people as Dostoievski, Gogol, Daphne du Maurier...
...some of the author's own experience, it tells its tale of an accidental shooting and resulting death in China during the war with a flare for smart phraseology, and only occasionally lapses into what an English A instructor might mark with one of his handy labels such as jargon or fine-writing. The rest of the stories range from pretty good to pretty bad, and point up the need for "Radditudes" to jazz up its make-up, throw some color and life on its cover, try, something audacious in its contents, and build up the respect of readers, advertisers...
...Smooth. "Another striking thing is the prose style of the advertisements, an extraordinary mixture of sheer lushness with clipped and sometimes very expensive technical jargon. Words like suave-mannered, custom-finished, contour-conforming, mitt-back, innersole, backdip, midriff, swoosh, swash, curvaceous, slenderize and pet-smooth are flung about with evident full expectation that the reader will understand them at a glance...