Word: jargoning
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...even more horrifying. In Arrival and Departure their full savagery is modified by the device Arthur Koestler uses, of having Peter relate them to a psychiatrist who is also a Communist and something of a psychiatric case herself. But they are strong enough even when tempered with psychoanalytic jargon. Arrival and Departure is a far less important book than Koestler's Darkness at Noon, a political melodrama of the Moscow trials. Its novel contribution is in its subtle picture of the Communist use of psychiatry...
Johnny Come Lately (United Artists). When Actor James and Producer William Cagney quit Warner Bros., a year ago last March, and sank $750,000 in a new, independent production, plenty of Hollywood's bigwigs wished them all the bad luck in the world. In trade jargon, the Cagney brothers were dealing "a blow to the industry." If they succeeded, there were plenty of other stars, directors, writers and producers itching to try their own hands at independent production. And not even their worst wishers doubted that the Cagneys would succeed...
...Institute,* this documentary is amusing, honest, exciting, intelligent, understandable, always for two reasons: 1) common sense about moving pictures; 2) common sense about human beings. Reason No.1 makes every shot count while the commentator talks. Reason No. 2 saves the film from two of the banes of pedagogy: technological jargon and talking down...
Lady Macbeth was a satire against the bourgeoisie, but the musical language in which this satire was expressed was the international jargon of dissonance known to postwar Europe from Paris to Moscow as "modern music." That Hitler was, at the same time, castigating modern music as "musical bolshevism" bothered the bolshevik theorists not a whit. To them it was "bourgeois formalism...
Forty to 100 years ago, Chinook Jargon (based partly on but not to be confused with the Chinook tribal language) was spoken very extensively by whites and Indians alike throughout the coastal portions of Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and southern Alaska. . . . But the Eskimos never spoke Chinook Jargon; those I have asked never even heard of it. The few Jargon words (such as Cheechako) which are familiar to the Eskimos today have been brought to them by their contact with the whites...