Word: jargonizing
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...abreast of subversive activity in the United States." Then Thurmond launched into his description of the origins of urban rioting. "Violence is started by criminals, deviants, and subversives," who work to involve others in riots. "The job of the riot maker... is to alienate his target group. In Marxist jargon, this is called 'developing class consciousness...
...trying to take the jargon element out of the word 'communication,'" Rosenblatt said...
...that Greg keeps makes up this awkward, yet stubbornly obsessing book. At first, the entries are all G.I.-the duty jargon of a young eager beaver who has few doubts that superior officers will see his log and praise him for Going by the Book even on a desert island. Then solitude begins to work its mischief by mixing up time and perspective-bleaching the freshest memories, reviving older ones to an almost unbearable intensity...
...once innocent and culpable. Many Eastern European pictures were unavailable; American companies prefer to release their films without any festival foreplay. But no such restrictions forced the selection of solemn bores and hedged experiments that mark the 1970 festival. Presented with inconsistent aesthetic standards, promoted with hyperthyroid jargon ("vertiginous spatial ambiguity . . . total meta-theatricality"), the New York Film Festival continues an uneven tradition now running into its eighth year. Some representative features...
...proliferation of Women's Lib-oriented journals has served to standardize the movement's special jargon. In California, Varda Murrell is writing a Dictionary of Sexism attacking English as "Manglish." With perfect seriousness she advocates, for example, substituting "girlcott" for "boycott." Others are also playing the game. Unliberated honorifics like "Mrs." and "Miss" are replaced by the noncommittal "Ms." Idiotically, there is a move to replace "history" with "herstory." A favorite pejorative is "sexism"?the expression of conscious or unconscious male-chauvinist attitudes. Sexism was the sin of one professor who admitted at a San Francisco meeting...