Word: jargonized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SPECIALISTS in every field from cardiology to television develop their own trade jargon. Newsmen writing about those specialties must learn the lingo-in order to pass it along to the reader with appropriate translation or, perhaps more often, to protect the reader from it. Spacemen, of course, have their own jargon too. In doing the basic reporting for this week's cover story (see THE NATION), Houston Bureau Chief Ben Cate picked up some of the newer entries in the space vocabulary...
...Murray Schisgal takes three fashionably denuded psyches liberally sprinkled with self-indulgence and garnished with pseudo-Freudian jargon, then roasts them in a hot oven of satire...
...Murray Schisgal takes three fashionably denuded psyches liberally sprinkled with self-indulgence and garnished with pseudo-Freudian jargon, then roasts them hilariously in a hot oven of satire...
...state it simply, this school has an irresistible tendency to imprison and confuse the mind within a stralt-jacket of fashionable jargon. If traditional learning (which Mr. Horne evidently loathes) confuses less than it enlightens, why should it not be continued, nay, expanded? Cheng-Telk...
...Epps has not yet approached success. His writings on the Negro revolution mix, in a very mechanical way, the jargon of Sociology and the rhetoric of moral imprecation. There is no fusion of technique and sensibility. This piece in Mosaic seems to me no less mechanical synthesis of literary allusion and Profound Truth...