Word: jargonized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...author explores the minds of troubled youth and the sexual and emotional problems of their parents. He also probes the impact of such contemporary events as the Viet Nam War and the cultural anomie that characterizes today's generation gap. In the hands of Clive, even the philosophical jargon of youth becomes a powerful weapon. "The Turks like things broken and helpless. Destruction is a form of possession," he observes in an Iago-like attempt to dominate the inquisitive colonel. "War is the great sexual game. You could say that castration is the goal. And enemies are always...
...newspapermen weren't listening. Mike Royko, a columnist for the Chicago Daily News. had the Weathermen pegged as aristocratic dilettantes. "They spoke a combination of Negro slang, greaser jargon, and Marxist slogans, which is a bit hard to do if you have a Ph.D. in Anthropology and your father is a stockbroker...
...exhaustive study of homosexuals in therapy, a group of researchers headed by Psychoanalyst Irving Bieber observed that a large number of homosexuals came from families where the father was either hostile, aloof or ineffectual and where the mother was close-binding and inappropriately intimate (CBI in scientific jargon). Bieber's wife, Psychologist Toby Bieber, has found many of the same patterns in the parents of lesbians, although in reverse...
THIS GIVES us a clue to the awesome power of the technocracy in our world. Rationalized in the jargon of industrial necessity and Objective Science, the technocracy transcends political ideology, even revolutionary ideology. It grows without check in all industrial societies-capitalist or collectivist, Roszak emphasizes-while its often disastrous breakdowns are blamed on this political faction by that one. Everywhere, the dominant motives are social integration and control. (E. g.: big business in America, now assured of fairly steady profits, seeks along with the government to "rationalize" -manipulate and control-the total economy of the country and, if possible...
...have condemned the Weatherman assault on the CFIA an act of violence against working people. Yet there is nothing in the morality of Mr. Hyland or the local SDS that assures such thoughtful discrimination in the future. When the time is right-when, to use Mr. Hyland's jargon, a "combination of possibilities and a progressive view of history" make violence against persons useful-we shall have the violence and with it a revised edition of the "Defense of Terrorism." It isn't hard to defend this kind of Schrecklichkelt when the end justifies the means and the only real...