Word: jargoning
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Television Commentator BILL MOYERS at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas in Austin: "If you would go forth from here to serve democracy well, you must first save the language. Save it from the jargon of insiders, who talk of the current budget debate in Washington as 'megapolicy choices between freeze-feasible base lines.' (Sounds more like a baseball game played in the Arctic Circle.) Save it from the smokescreen artists, who speak of 'revenue enhancement' and 'tax-base erosion control' when they really mean a tax increase . . . Save it from the partisan deniers...
...numbers, as they say, are spectacular. Her first album, a batch of dance tunes called simply Madonna, started slowly nearly two years ago, but now, at 2.8 million copies sold in the U.S., is closing in on triple platinum (in record-business jargon, 500,000 albums sold is gold, and 1 million is platinum). Her second, Like a Virgin, which includes five of her own songs, has gone quadruple platinum at 4.5 million copies in domestic sales, with 2.5 million more worldwide. Her singles have found 6.3 million buyers in the U.S. (or the same buyer 6.3 million times, exasperated...
Despite their differences, however, the two groups share the anxiety of outnumbered usurpers. They dwell in the past, using jargon and jingoism, history and mythology to erect walls around themselves and ward off the unknown. The white South African, contends Crapanzano, exists in a state of suspended animation. His waiting produces "feelings of powerlessness, helplessness . . . and all the rage that these feelings evoke...
...some monolithic kind of thing. But there is an awful lot of shading. Some groups are very spiritual. Some are very social. For example, over on the East Side of Manhattan, meetings are packed with yuppies who talk like they have just swallowed their Apple computers, the jargon and technical talk is so thick. But our theater group has its own particular problems related to the stage industry. Regardless of the group, along with the differences there are the bonding similarities of the central problem: alcohol." Some assemblies are dominated by a single profession. In Washington, for example, one, made...
...newspaper jargon, the money woes of United Press International are what is known as a running story. Stained by red ink for two decades, the nation's second-largest wire service (800 client newspapers and 3,300 broadcast stations, vs. 1,260 papers and 5,700 stations for the Associated Press) was sold to a group of investors in 1982 for $1. Despite wage and staff cutbacks, U.P.I. remained in delicate health; as payroll checks began bouncing in March, Owners Douglas Ruhe and William Geissler agreed to surrender most of their shares to the company's creditors and employees. Even...