Word: jargonized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...merely add up to leadership. "Heroism should not be confused with strength and success," says Author John Updike. "Our concept of the hero must be humanized to include the ideas of sacrifice and death, even of failure." The hero also must touch people's emotions. In modern jargon, that means someone who "turns people...
...unloved moron. David Warner's Hamlet is popular not because some jet-set clique has deemed it "In," but because Peter Hall has concentrated on the aspects of the play most meaningful for the 20th century (as distinct from 20th Century-Fox). Those who converse in the "flip jargon" have IQs of 80 or under; it is not the "basic" English for teenagers. For the year's most ridiculous load of generalizations, you deserve to swing indeed. All of you. And not in London either...
Unexplained jargon and complicated prose epitomize the article by Lance-Jeffrey Luschnig on Iqbal Geoffrey. The most frustrating part of this article is the author's adamant omission of all references to the paintings and to specifically what he sees there. Four beautiful reproductions of famous works of modern art illustrate T. Lux Feininger's Notes on Modern Art; but the article never refers to these illustrations...
...House of Jargon. Professors who profess with the passion of Athos, Scully and the eight others on TIME'S cover are enjoying new glory on nearly every college and university campus in the U.S., as academic administrators react to complaints that they have neglected teaching. To too many youngsters, it appears that those castles of knowledge they thought they were entering have turned out to be cardboard houses built of professorial jargon, Ph.D. pretentiousness, preoccupation with tenure and personal prestige...
Dazzling Gems. To the lively Londoner, no explanations are really necessary. Talking the flip jargon that has become basic English for teenagers, jet setters and indeed any knowledgeable adult striving to maintain the illusion that he is at least young in heart, the switched-on London bird or beatle calls his urb "super," "fab," "groovy," "gear," "close" or "with it." "Ready, steady, go. There's a Whole Scene Going," chirps Cathy McGowan, 22, moderator on ITV's Ready, Steady Go show and London's favorite "dolly" of the moment, doing a deliberate "sendup" (takeoff) on the title...