Word: jargonized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clubs & Jargon. The real bounce in the tape market is provided by home tapesters who like to do their own recording-either from radio broadcasts or from borrowed LPs (a $12 album can be put on tape costing about $4). Although recording from broadcasts is a definite copyright violation, the tapesters went at it even more vigorously last year, after the advent of FM-stereo broadcasting...
...buyers take to the '63s, it will not be because of radical styling changes. Changes are few, though selling vocabulary has a new sound. Here is some of the jargon that customers will be hearing more of in Model Year...
Shorebound Jargon. "I've been conforming since I was five," says Mandel's hero, Lieut, (j.g.) Samuel Marks. "That just about qualifies me as an organization man right there." Marks's organization man is anybody who will not rock the boat, either from fear of being noticed or hope of future pelf. But by the time Mandel is through with him, he has become a somewhat more complex conformist. At the outset Marks is a reservist with a wry eye for the shorebound "aye, aye" jargon of the peacetime Navy and a fondness for clean shirts...
...tinbenders"-local jargon for semiskilled aircraft workers-are packing up in droves and leaving the housing developments that sprawled around the city during the past few years...
When asked to characterize the present state of the economy-is it good? will it get worse?-the men who are closest to it take refuge in jargon. Economist George Cloos of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank prefers that ripe-sounding phrase "high-level stagnation." Swift & Co. Economist Willard Arant calls it "high-level stability." Professor J. Keith Butters of the Harvard Business School thinks that the economy is in "a sidewise movement" after "an inadequate recovery." One top corporate economist calls the present economy "a rolling kind of thing"; another figures it is in "a sputtering phase"; and still...