Word: jargonized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suburban Sartre and soap-opera sensibilities are the springs from which three moderns drink in Murray Schisgal's hilarious satire of the chatter of Freudian analysis and the jargon of the theater of the absurd...
...ideas which Coles has developed in these studies are not easily summarized, because he shuns theories and abstract jargon, and presents his findings in concrete, personal cases. His goal in writing is to deal directly with the "worries, fears, and loves of individual people." Like Conrad, Agee, and Orwell, he wants to bring the crushed people to life -- a significant pun, because Coles means it both as a writer and as a doctor: to make them "come alive" for the reader, and to make them live. His approach to psvchiatric chiatric problems ties in with his literary style. He shies...
...scientist, sharply. For if the struggle of the sick reveals new goals for society in general, it also demands an unorthodox type of psychiatry. In a 1961 Atlantic article, "A Young Psychiatrist Looks at His Profession," Coles protested against tendencies toward narrow definition of psychiatry, rigid technical training, abstract jargon, and deadening theoretical debates. He called for a concern for general human activity, and a recognition of the psychiatrist's own "disorders and sorrows" as essential elements of the profession. To develop a sense of the limitations of the discipline, a sense of humor, and "to offer ourselves freely," -- free...
Physicians today write papers about the problems involved in "the management of death" and debate how to handle (in that most hideous of jargon phrases) the "terminal case." There can only be gratitude for the elimination of suffering-but "management of death" raises difficult questions...
...card duel between the two hot-handed pros generates all the expected tension, and Director Norman Jewison exploits it fully. The grim-to-garish background seems authentic. The jargon sounds right. And McQueen v. Robinson put on a bristling good show whenever they interrupt their marathon long enough for a few words of subtly guarded small talk-about health, luck, woman trouble, anything that might make an opponent's mind wander...