Word: jargonized
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...20th century, that floor became cluttered with the jargon and rhetoric of specialists and experts. Occasionally, a native wit would appear and be lionized for his logic-Will Rogers, for example, or for that matter, Dr. Spock, who shrewdly titled his 1946 volume The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. But by midcentury, sense was no longer common. Today the American public can be intimidated by those who ask Chico Marx's question: "Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes...
...Dixon (Antioch, '39; Harvard Medical School, '43), who was serving as Philadelphia's commissioner of health when named to head his alma mater in 1959. Usually chomping on a half-smoked cigar that sprinkles ashes down his rumpled blue polo shirt, Dixon talks in convoluted jargon that has earned him the nickname "Dim Jixon." Students still talk about his speech in 1969 comparing the campus to a well-balanced fishbowl populated with guppies, goldfish and piranhas. "For days," says one senior, "people tried to figure out what he meant...
...concentrators claimed that the VES department was too theory-oriented. Only 8 per cent said that it was too creation-oriented. Approximately three-quarters claimed that they would like to see the department changed. The verdict--the department should move in the direction of creativity, away from principles and jargon. This meant less-structured studio courses and the introduction of many desired courses in painting and print-making into the VES curriculum...
...could be the name of an infectious disease, a moss lichen or a law-school seminar. Reggae (pronounced ray-gay) is the local jargon of Jamaicans distinguishing "regular" rhythm from calypso. To millions of fans, the lilting pop rock with the spicy island beat is the Caribbean's most captivating musical export since steel bands...
Indeed, most of the work shown remains incomprehensible unless understood as a solution to a problem given in the design studio. Yet a basic fault of the exhibition is that the explanations of most of the problems are couched in such artsy jargon that they are indecipherable. For example, pieces of cardboard tubing cut from a big, cylindrical roll and reassembled into different forms could perhaps be justified as a design experiment. But to state the problem as the "re-formation of a rigidly geometrical object into a unified structure, which visually interrelates all active elements," gives the cardboard forms...