Word: jargonizing
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...yearly installments of $160,000 through 1976. In effect, the buying power of the Metropolitan's 17 departments had been partly mortgaged for several years in advance against one painting. The result: the Met needed money. Hoving proposed to get it through "deaccessioning" pictures-the barbaric museum jargon for preparing to sell. Last September, the Met revealed that it had deaccessioned a major work from the De Groot bequest, Henri Rousseau's The Tropics, and secretly sold it, along with Vincent Van Gogh's The Olive Pickers, to Marlborough Fine Art galleries. No price was given...
...Pelham one two three" is New York City subway jargon for the train that sets out from the Pelham Bay Park terminal in The Bronx at 1:23 p.m. In John Godey's "What if...?" exercise, the front car of such a train is hijacked by four highly organized, submachine-gun-toting terrorists. They hold the motorman and 16 passengers hostage while their leader negotiates with the city government for a $1,000,000 ransom. The hostages do not panic; after all, they represent that well-rounded social group - a call girl, a wise old man, a black militant...
...doors-strange faces at the windows-everything was strange...the very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling disputatious tone about it...A fellow...was haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens-elections-members of Congress -liberty...and other words which were a perfect Babylonish jargon...
...chairman of Nikita Khrushchev's much criticized "virgin lands" project before being restored to the agriculture ministry five years later. Earlier this month Izvestia reported that Sergei Shevchenko, the ministry official in charge of farm machinery, had also been discharged for "violating state discipline"-Soviet jargon for quarreling with the boss or gross incompetence. Sovietologists predicted other top agriculture officials would also lose their jobs...
...marvel of simplicity and strength, but few engineers will admit that its creator is an engineer. Mathematicians are chilly, though many admire his geometry. Fuller's poetry, the hyperventilated phrasing of his ideas in a form that is supposed to facilitate understanding, frequently lapses into technological jargon. That fact did not seem to bother the Harvard selection committee that awarded Fuller the 1961-62 Charles Eliot Norton Professorship, a chair once occupied by T.S. Eliot. In trying to convey and assess Bucky, Hugh Kenner, a literary man who has written books on Joyce, Beckett and Pound, solves the Fuller...