Word: jargoning
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...heart Other People's Money is a simple morality piece, a clash of good and evil told in financial jargon. The only problem with Sterner's play is that it suffers from the Batman syndrome--as in Tim Burton's movie, the evil character has the best dialogue and so enjoys his wicked doings that the audience cannot help being drawn to him. Though Cain does his best to flesh out the "good-guy" model written for him, Jorgenson still resembles Wilford Brimley in a Quaker Oats commercial--he wants to preserve his company because "it's the right thing...
...Fishman scam, a claim strongly disputed by both Fishman and his longtime psychiatrist, Uwe Geertz, a prominent Florida hypnotist. Both men claim that when arrested, Fishman was ordered by the church to kill Geertz and then do an "EOC," or end of cycle, which is church jargon for suicide...
Illiberal Education disappoints because it never delves beneath the surface of its all-too-easy targets. We read the self-important jargon of professors like Fish, but we never understand them. University presidents have uttered public relations bromides for decades; D'Souza reacts as if he is hearing them for the first time. Too young to have lived through the Vietnam era on campus, D'Souza fails to realize that tenured professors with radical views are not solely a postmodernist phenomenon. Like the Broadway theater, liberal education always seems in peril. Luckily for D'Souza, equally constant...
...strategies for coping with this shortfall, ranging from canceling the ATF and replacing it with an upgraded (but still not stealthy) version of the existing F-15s to ordering only a handful of ATFs and deploying them in a small force of killer fighters: "silver bullets" in the jargon of the field. Congressman Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, had earlier put forward a compromise that would continue research on the ATF but hold off on procurement, staying for now with...
...table, telling his friends of his son's college prospects, singing The Donkey Serenade to his ailing daughter. The details of his life are wonderfully exact: a bottle of Camel Royal Blue Ink, old copies of Bertrand Russell, an 1897 edition of Barrere and Leland's Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant. And Mistry catches the pungent cadences of Indian English as they have seldom been caught before: "What everything have you told them? Always I shout and scream, while nice Daddy watches quietly...