Word: jargonized
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Unexplained jargon and complicated prose epitomize the article by Lance-Jeffrey Luschnig on Iqbal Geoffrey. The most frustrating part of this article is the author's adamant omission of all references to the paintings and to specifically what he sees there. Four beautiful reproductions of famous works of modern art illustrate T. Lux Feininger's Notes on Modern Art; but the article never refers to these illustrations...
...House of Jargon. Professors who profess with the passion of Athos, Scully and the eight others on TIME'S cover are enjoying new glory on nearly every college and university campus in the U.S., as academic administrators react to complaints that they have neglected teaching. To too many youngsters, it appears that those castles of knowledge they thought they were entering have turned out to be cardboard houses built of professorial jargon, Ph.D. pretentiousness, preoccupation with tenure and personal prestige...
Dazzling Gems. To the lively Londoner, no explanations are really necessary. Talking the flip jargon that has become basic English for teenagers, jet setters and indeed any knowledgeable adult striving to maintain the illusion that he is at least young in heart, the switched-on London bird or beatle calls his urb "super," "fab," "groovy," "gear," "close" or "with it." "Ready, steady, go. There's a Whole Scene Going," chirps Cathy McGowan, 22, moderator on ITV's Ready, Steady Go show and London's favorite "dolly" of the moment, doing a deliberate "sendup" (takeoff) on the title...
Holy Being. The word of God, naked and unadorned, may be fine for the true believer, but some theologians argue that Biblical terminology has ceased to be part of the world's vocabulary, and is in danger of becoming a special jargon as incomprehensible to some as the equations of physicists. To bridge this communications gap, they have tried to reinterpret the concept of God into contemporary philosophical terms. Union Seminary's John Macquarrie, for example, proposes a description of God based on Martin Heidegger's existential philosophy, which is primarily concerned with explaining the nature of "being" as such...
...thin, blond and balding. He has the disconcerting ability to talk in a completely calm and normal voice for the duration of a record, then hold up a hand in warning, switch on his mike, talk with raised pitch and volume for half a minute in perfect disc jockey jargon, put a new record on, turn off the mike, and ask, "Now what were we talking about?" When I marveled at his completely transformed on-the-air personality, he said a little defensively, "It beats working...