Word: jargonized
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...wants to try what one's been writing about," says Mallon, who says his study at Harvard helped prepare him for novel writing because "it encouraged us to write in a way that avoided the worst excesses of academic jargon...
...offers the hypothesis admist a cloud of scientific jargon claiming to explain much. Yet when the smoke clears, so does the plausibility of his argument. Sheldrake attempts to disprove physical theory by proposing the existence of "pure information" in addition to matter and energy. This information provides the foundation for morphic fields and allows them to persist undiminished through time and space. Though he offers a few tests of this theory. Sheldrake explains away outcomes that would seem to disprove his proposal. He himself is extremely credulous, gleeful that his ideas allow for telepathy, reincarnation, collective memory and the like...
...Electability" is a word in the political jargon that offends the ear and distracts primary voters from the parochial concerns that usually consume nominating politics. This year four candidates are nonetheless relying on the E word as a big part of their pitch, arguing that they can make it in November by reaching beyond their core supporters. A TIME poll taken last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman demonstrates that Bob Dole has the strongest claim to ecumenical appeal; Pat Robertson, Al Gore and Paul Simon have the least...
...Olympics competitions from New York City. Ferrer demonstrated his gold-medal mettle as Sport editor during the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo and the Summer Games in Los Angeles. Now, as then, his aim is to present readers with coverage that is expert and colorful yet uncluttered with sports jargon. "My two sons are great skiers," says Ferrer, "so I know that a mogul is the one who buys the equipment...
...Griggs, Laura Lopez and Paul A. Witteman, and Reporter Ellie McGrath. In New York City, Reporter-Researcher Lawrence Mondi will coordinate the research, Assistant Art Director Arthur Hochstein will design the pages -- and Ferrer, of course, will be calling the plays, or the shots, or whatever the proper sports jargon is. And when he is rested from that Olympian effort, it's on to Seoul for the Summer Games...