Word: jargonized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both efforts to paraphrase the Bible in reform-school jargon were inspired by the Rev. Carl F. Burke, 45, the detention home's Protestant chaplain, who believes that the language of the Gospel is puzzling and irrelevant to children from urban slums. Burke formed this opinion at a summer camp for delinquents, when he tried to explain to a boy from a broken home that God was like a father. "Oh, yeah?" the boy answered. "If he's anything like my old man, I hate...
There must be a nagging fear, however, in the minds of skiing's entrepreneurs, that the boom may contain the seeds of its own destruction, for so much of the appeal of the sport in the past was esoteric. A skiing holiday was a kind of retreat and the jargon and attire proved to be gamesmanly ploys back home. But now that every street urchin has a quilted parka, this sort of appeal has been irrevocably lost. The question is: how much of skiing's popularity has been due to the sport itself and how much to the ancillary institutions...
RUSSIA AT WAR: 1941-45, by Alexander Werth. A Russian-born British journalist who was on the spot has compiled the most complete English-language history to date of the titanic struggle with Germany. Though the account sometimes leans too heavily on official Soviet explanations-and jargon-the canvas is vast and the details often fascinating...
...years, the Order of the Coif* has awarded coveted gold Coif Keys to some of the country's brightest law students. Last week the legal fraternity began honoring another kind of excellence: legal writing. The need is clear. At its jargon-free best, legal literature inspires the court decisions that shape U.S. society. Yet legal writers usually toil obscurely for arcane law reviews. Even when they publish books, their reward is likely to be petty cash and a paucity of public praise...
From the superb scenes of war, insurrection, interrogation and factory work to the jargon of "Marxist selfcriticism" sessions, Communist life has rarely been subjected to such a panoramic survey by such a merciless pen. But Author