Word: jargonized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALONE WITH AMERICA by Richard Howard. 594 pages. Afheneum. $12.95. Too many cross-eyed insights and too much precious jargon detract from an otherwise vast and valuable accounting of American poetry since...
...that Indonesia had been underestimating its capacity for investments. We recommended first a primer on how to judge strength for investments, and second, that they be less forthcoming with tax-exemptions to foreign investors. We find, however, that it is not a zero-sum game, if Ican use the jargon of the trade...
Military briefings are meant to be not only as dramatic as possible but redolent with knowing jargon. One of the more ingenious examples of the craft takes place on a windswept crag overlooking the Demilitarized Zone in Korea. For the benefit of important visitors, a demonstration of enemy tactics is staged by G.I.s. Playing the part of North Koreans, they slip up to some barbed wire surrounded by mock-up mines. One G.I. snips the wire with a captured enemy wire cutter, thus demonstrating how North Koreans make sneak attacks on U.S. and South Korean patrols. During the show...
After Christmas, education stopped at Nanterre, Chaos regned. The fete had begun once more. Informal and having no real ruling clique, the movement at Nanterre, later to be named. The Movement of March 22, accepted all kinds of students. Jokes and songs replaced much of the usual political jargon. Much more spontancity and personal involvement was possible at Nanterre than at the Sorbonne where "revolutionary vanguards" controlled all action and inaction. And for the first time in the history of the French student movement members of more than one groupescule militated in the same organization. Secure that the interests...
...Jargon, the sublanguage peculiar to any trade, contributes to euphemism when its terms seep into general use. The stock market, for example, rarely "falls" in the words of Wall Street analysts. Instead it is discovered to be "easing" or found to have made a "technical correction" or "adjustment." As one financial writer notes: "It never seems to 'technically adjust' upward." The student New Left, which shares a taste for six-syllable words with Government bureaucracy, has concocted a collection of substitute terms for use in politics. To "liberate," in the context of campus uproars, means to capture...