Word: jargonizing
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...Manhattan Project pioneered the art during World War II, there was no such thing as nuclear technology. Starting with only a few scientific guidelines, the physicists had to create new instruments, materials, processes, even a new element: plutonium. They had to write new reference books in a new technical jargon. Their basic raw material, uranium, was a chemical curiosity. To get it in carload lots, they needed a new mining industry with a novel and tricky technology...
...major challenges. One is economic, but the U.S. can and will intensify its economic contest with the Soviet Union. The other threat is military-probably not on the cataclysmic scale of all-out nuclear war but rather in the form of Communistexploited brush fires throughout the world. In Communist jargon, these are known as "wars of liberation," and the U.S. must find ways and means of dealing with them...
...added evidence of North Vietnamese intervention in the South, but a full reading of them reveals the nature of the enemy. The guerrillas are far from being supermen; they suffer cold, hunger and other hardships. But they are fiercely indoctrinated, to the point of thinking and writing in Communist jargon, and in their idealism, however misguided, lies much of their strength-a strength the U.S. must understand in order to fight...
...character development. Warren staged a situation of violence (a youth trapped in a cave), exposed a dozen people to it, and then, without explanation, asked the reader to believe that each of them experienced a profound change of personality. This sort of dodge is a black box, in engineering jargon-a device whose purpose is given but whose wiring is conveniently left secret...
...Gordon Milde, to take but one melancholy example, has written a tiring, adolescent, bogus-religious, pre-New Yorkerish (one could enumerate further) bit of fiction; Mr. Roger Hagen, to take but one other, has written a tortuous, jargon-ridden assay on "new radical humanism"--his confusion is endemic...