Word: jargonized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Please don't take any more courses in sociology, which seduces the immature into thinking they understand a problem if they discuss it in polysyllables. Jargon is not insight. Vocabulary is the opiate of radicals...
...hopes have been raised by officials armed with gleaming statistics and pollyanna rhetoric. First the U.S. "turned the corner" in Viet Nam; then there was "light at the end of the tunnel," "the enemy was on the run," and the attrition rates, the kill ratios, and all the other jargon of victory rolled on and on. Since they have been proved wrong so often in the past, U.S. experts are careful not to parade their latest positive assessments; indeed...
...more serious were charges in the authoritative magazine Kommunist to the effect that today the military controls China and excludes the "broad masses of the working people" from any effective role. "The group of Mao Tse-tung," said Kommunist, "has deserted Marxist-Leninist principles." Translated from the jargon, that means that Moscow has read Peking out of the Communist movement. The Soviets are working manfully to persuade other Communist parties to agree to ratify that decision at the forthcoming international party conference in May, and the Chinese are sure to be discussed at this week's Warsaw Pact summit...
Like the other 60 or so lectures she delivers each year, this one was packed with provocative opinion, and necessary forays into social science jargon were leavened with literate wit. Unmistakably, the dogmatic pronouncements were drawn from Margaret Mead's 44 years as a pioneering field researcher. "I have seen what few people have ever seen," she says, "people who have moved from the Stone Age into the present in 30 years-kids who say, "My father was a cannibal, but I am going to be a doctor...
...jargon-free, almost lyrical prose, Coming of Age described how a cultural web of ritual, taboo, kinship and history formed the typical Samoan personality. Growing up is "so easy, so simple," she found, because "Samoa is a place where no one plays for very high stakes, suffers for his convictions or fights to the death. Caring is slight." The book became a bestseller and basic reading for introductory social-science courses; it is still in print. Though the work broke no theoretical ground, Margaret Mead's conclusion that the Samoan teen-ager was calm and free from trauma provided...