Word: jargonized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United States bombing of North Vietnam seems to have become a mere matter of missions flown, tons of explosives dropped, raids carried out, supply lines interdicted, all couched in the most mind-easing military and journalistic jargon. Felix Greene's new film, Inside North Vietnam, is a welcome reminder that there are human beings behind the statistics of the war in the North...
...been shot down 11 days previously. The major, with his right leg and left arm severely fractured, lay in a hospital bed, and talked about the war. Nervous, with his face showing the strain, he said he hoped the war could be "terminated"--he spoke almost throughout in military jargon. He said he agreed with the "Kennedy, Fulbright, Mansfield position," that we "need to take another look in regards to our Vietnamese policy." What about draft-card burners? He was against them. What was needed was "to put the pressure on the politicians through the vote...
...types and civil rights activists. Rather, he feels that it was some interaction between person and situation that determined what form behavior took. What raises Coles's book far above the level of an interesting series of case studies is the warmth of tone, the freedom from specialist jargon and the understanding of differences. Although he is a strong supporter of civil rights, Coles also shows great respect for the traditions of the South...
...seems. At casual glance, the report is organized in proper bureaucratic fashion, and is written in proper sociological jargon. War is not simply an extension of diplomacy, it says, but a society's "principal political stabilizer." It functions as a "generational stabilizer" as well, enabling "the physically deteriorating, older generation to maintain its control of the younger, destroying it if necessary." Because war supplies all these benefits, it is not to be abandoned casually. There must be a "believable life-and-death threat" as a substitute...
Died. Charles W. Morton, 68, humorist and editor; of a heart attack; in London. Creator of the Atlantic's "Accent" column, Morton specialized for 26 years in the slow, cerebral burn with which he seared pampered child stars, jargon-jawed sociologists, and the fractional fantasies of statisticians...