Word: jargonized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This satire of suburbia has a serious message: the commuter's jargon with its self-analysis and narcissism is not just a cultivated mannerism but a disease...
...avoid jargon. Simple language makes the doctor more human, and keeps people from being intimidated by the 'magic' of medicine. Besides jargon is really only useful to people who want to be convincing but are afraid they won't be--it's a way to puff yourself...
REUBEN, REUBEN, by Peter De Vries. This satire of suburbia has a serious mes sage: the commuter's jargon, with its self-analysis and narcissism, is not just a cultivated mannerism but a disease...
...that apply with any exactitude to individuals. Yet hard and useful evidence about the way most people are most likely to act most of the time is slowly being gathered by the young "behavioral sciences" -anthropology, psychology, sociology and related fields. Unhappily, much of the evidence is shrouded in jargon. Happily, nonscholars may turn this week to Human Behavior: An Inventory of Scientific Findings (Harcourt, Brace & World; $11), the first plain-English compendium of behavioral science's best-tested propositions...
...waves on the EEG showed when the sleeper's eyes were moving. Slow eye movements, taking three to four seconds, occurred when the sleeper was moving the position of his body. But rapid, almost flickering eye movements, now abbreviated in the trade jargon to REMs, occurred in varying stretches of five minutes to an hour, several times during a night's sleep. By waking and questioning their subjects after a REM period, the researchers found that they nearly always recalled having just finished a dream. By checking their EEG tracings with what their subjects told them, the Chicago...