Word: jargoning
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...encounter devastatingly sketches the uneasy state of U.S. race relations, in which white liberals may endorse the black cause in theory, yet not know any blacks socially and thus fawn on or patronize them. When the intruder starts to analyze The Catcher in the Rye in scholarly jargon, the hosts are spellbound by his vocabulary and miss the fact that his rap becomes comic nonsense...
...foreign policy too we have to get rid of the command-administrative system ((jargon for dictatorial rule)). There's no other choice. It's the imperative of our time...
CHARLES MINGUS: EPITAPH (Columbia). Jazz, in today's approved jargon, is called Afro-American classical music. No work has better claim to that description than Epitaph, a monumental composition (more than two hours long) by the protean jazz bassist who died in 1979. Shifting from blues to Ellington-like mood pieces to cacophonous yawps, the work is scored for a 30- piece band. It was performed once in Mingus' lifetime, haphazardly. This live recording comes from Epitaph's real world premiere, at New York City's Lincoln Center last June. Composer and jazz historian Gunther Schuller led an all-star...
...great advantage of not being written in indigestible jargon of international relations," Hoffmann says. "But it's not for people who pick up Ludlum at the airport, either," referring to the author of best-selling intrigue novels...
...Lynch has a Boy Scout's cherubic face and nice manners. His conversation is filled with wholesome jargon like "thrilling" and "cool." But eccentricities lurk just beneath the surface. He always keeps his shirt collar buttoned to the top because "I have this thing about my neck. It's just an eerie kind of feeling about my collarbone." For seven years he drank milkshakes every day at a Bob's Big Boy in Los Angeles. "I'd have coffee, sometimes six cups, along with the shake, and I'd have sugar in my coffee," he says. "By then I would...