Word: jargonized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chief of the University Police, symbolizes the force's two sides. For 27 years, he was an F.B.I. agent and a supervisor of criminal investigation in the Boston Region. Tall and rugged, he can rattle off the where's, who's, and how's of gangland murders in a jargon that makes Eliot Nesse sound like Little Joe Cartwright...
...formidable problems. Ulysses is one of the most complex literary compositions of modern times: a short story that exploded into a veritable summa of 30 centuries of Western culture. Most of the leading European languages, ancient and modern, and 18 different literary modes are merged in the amazing Joycean jargon-all of them so repetitively punctuated with wordplays that the book resembles a giant pun cushion...
AMERICA HURRAH. Jean-Claude van Itallie melds pop art and the theater of cruelty as he leads his audience through a modern Inferno of cocktail parties, urban herds, politics, psychoanalytic jargon and motels...
...institute seeks to stimulate creative Christian thinking on urban problems through weekend seminars that are open to outsiders. The seminars are larded with the institute's particular jargon-mind-set and imaginal education are favorite words-and faculty members rely on shock tactics to make listeners aware of the church's crisis situation. "When are you going to stop prettying up the heroes of the church so that people will know what kind of men they were?" demanded Lay Faculty Member Joe Pierce at one seminar. "Martin Luther? He was three sheets to the wind on German beer...
...story begins with Michael Wood, who was NSA director for development in 1965-66. Wood was "not-witty" -- spy jargon meaning the CIA had not informed him of the bond between the two organizations. He had learned about it privately from Phil Sherburne, then president of NSA and now at Harvard Law School...