Word: jargonized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Detroit Free Lancer J. Edward Bailey, 40, who does much of TIME'S photographic work in the Detroit area. Once he had the assignment, Ed Bailey read up on automobile styling over a period of two months, digging into books and pamphlets and learning to toss off inside jargon like "Di-Noc" and "frisket knife." Before he took a picture, he spent five days at the four auto manufacturers' studios, testing lighting for color film and filters used under artificial light mixed with daylight. Then he worked for 22 days in the auto design centers with seven cameras...
...Freud, who made man a prisoner of his instincts. According to Barzun, there are not two warring cultures, as set forth in C. P. Snow's famed thesis. The war is over and science has won. The humanities have succumbed. The spurious social sciences with their lifeless jargon dominate modern thought; the arts have become analytical and overly abstract; the common tongue is bland and depersonalized...
...sports models, and this year and next the curve will continue its comeback in at least three Detroit offerings. Last week Chrysler introduced the first of the new fastbacks, the Barracuda, whose startlingly different appearance is caused by a huge (14.4 sq. ft.), sloping rear window-"backlight," in Detroit jargon...
...medium height with a graying crewcut, Pettigrew could easily pass for a junior executive--that is, until he opens his mouth. He speaks in slang, spiced with psychological and sociological jargon. (Someone is "scared as shatters;" de facto segregation is the "functional equivalent" of legal segregation.) His Southern drawl, clipped short after 12 years in the North, can be turned on and off at will, but generally a distinct trace of it clings to his words...
...Sengstaken tube was removed from the esophagus today at noon, and . . . there is no evidence of recurrent bleeding." The surgical jargon in the report on General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, by distinguished doctors at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, covered not only what had ailed the patient but also an ingenious device to relieve the trouble...