Word: jargonizing
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Trying to outguess that uncertainty can be particularly frustrating to small investors. Why, for example, when a company announces higher earnings, does its stock so often go down? In their jargon, brokers and analysts say that they have already "discounted" the news-meaning that they anticipated it and "sold on the news." An investor might also think that market averages will fall when other small investors sell more stock than they buy. In fact, markets often go up because professionals figure that small "odd-lotters" overreact and are generally wrong...
Tracy plays a liberal newspaper editor who comes home one afternoon to find his daughter (Katharine Houghton) engaged to a too-too successful doctor (Sidney Poitier) who, in the jargon of the early 60's, "happens to be a Negro." Of course the liberal editor turns out to have trouble practicing what he preaches, whereon the plot of the movie is hinged. William Rose's screenplay offers humor (the girl's parents' reaction on meeting Poitier; his parents' reaction on meeting Miss Houghton), suspense (who will talk to whom in which room next?), and incisive social commentary (we are brothers...
...efforts to get abreast of 1968 jargon and sexual tolerance, Samuel Taylor continues to live in the past. It speaks, well for the past. Taylor's new play Avanti, the offspring of now-forgotten works by S. N. Behrman and Philip Barry, already holds its own against the best Broadway comedies current; with a little rewriting, and one much-altered performance, it could succeed on a more absolute level...
...United States bombing of North Vietnam seems to have become a mere matter of missions flown, tons of explosives dropped, raids carried out, supply lines interdicted, all couched in the most mind-easing military and journalistic jargon. Felix Greene's new film, Inside North Vietnam, is a welcome reminder that there are human beings behind the statistics of the war in the North...
...been shot down 11 days previously. The major, with his right leg and left arm severely fractured, lay in a hospital bed, and talked about the war. Nervous, with his face showing the strain, he said he hoped the war could be "terminated"--he spoke almost throughout in military jargon. He said he agreed with the "Kennedy, Fulbright, Mansfield position," that we "need to take another look in regards to our Vietnamese policy." What about draft-card burners? He was against them. What was needed was "to put the pressure on the politicians through the vote...