Word: jargonized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thinkers as Plato, Marx, Tolstoy and Shakespeare. Tutors supervise the work, which is often livened by such guest lecturers as T. S. Eliot, André Malraux, Marc Chagall and Jacques Maritain. To check doctoral theses for accuracy, the committee calls in outside scholars who know the field. To combat jargon, "lay readers" with no expertise make sure that all theses are "interesting and comprehensible to any cultivated person...
...most types of pollen grains is amazingly resistant to chemical action. For millions of years, pollen which has avoided destruction by becoming buried retains its original organic structure. Palynologists speak of fossil pollen in distinction to modern pollen. Your Science editor has tripped on a neat bit of jargon by substituting fossilized, meaning petrified, for fossil, meaning...
Anyway, across a bargaining table, Bridges' politics do not seem to matter. "Harry will make a big speech at the table about Cuba," says Matson Vice President Wayne Horvitz. "We let him talk, and then we get back to business." Bridges explains it all in his own jargon: "There are some labels, Communism and socialism, liberalism and conservatism, that mean something. But Republican and Democrat-those labels don't mean anything. As against talking left and moving right, I think it is more honest to talk right and move right...
...archaeology a close second. As TIME'S Science researcher for the past four years, she has one professional reason for her preference. Looking up from her reference books, she observed gratefully that many archaeologists write a simple and understandable prose, and do not immediately lapse into incomprehensible technical jargon...
...story, Mrozek zeroes in on the absurdity of Communist hortatory jargon that often lends heroic titles to mundane party functionaries, hoping to inspire them. A group of civil servants is likened to eagles, and Mrozek takes the elevation literally. Warsaw clerks suddenly begin flying around their offices. They soar away from their desks, take to the mountains in southern Po land, and even begin carrying off lambs. Lead weights, which authorities cagily attached to their shoes, did no good, Mrozek records with relish-"they escaped in their socks...