Word: jargonizing
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...were not altogether quiet. Cairo radio and much of its press still spoke in language which, if not Communist itself, sounded as if it had been written by men on whom the jargon had rubbed off. Sample, from the newspaper Al Shaab: "In order to impose its hateful domination, imperialism decided to interfere in Jordan with the help of reactionary forces under the protection of the U.S. Sixth Fleet...
...their grooves by giving them glimpses of knowledge having nothing specifically to do with their fields. Last year 196 students signed up for the program; this year the enrollment jumped to 250. Though the courses are on the "graduate level intellectually." they are stripped of all technical jargon, require no specialized background. The whole idea is to make the broad concepts of physics intelligible to the future historian and major historical themes understandable to the physicist...
...brilliant young inventor who is victimized by a group of corrupt bureaucrats (standard villains of Soviet fiction) and is sent to a prison camp. Since its publication last August, Not By Bread Alone has been eagerly seized upon by millions of young Russians who find, beneath the technical jargon which covers many of its pages, a hidden symbolism, a new message, best expressed in the words of its hero Dmitry Lopatkin, back from the slave camp: "Somebody who has learned to think cannot ever be fully deprived of freedom...
...frills, one or two philosophic truths with a succession of Polonius-like truisms, an occasional feeling for language with pretentious and barbarous misuse of it. A good cast of actors, including Claude Rains, Christopher Plummer and Wendell Corey, were unhappily squandered on a pudding of a script-part scientific jargon, part Mermaid Tavern verse, part Madison Avenue prose-that sounded like cosmic advertising copy...
...Jargon. "I am glad to be in the glorious capital of the great Soviet Union," said Gomulka. "Nothing is more important than our fraternal and friendly relations." Then, looking past the microphones, he let his thin smile fade and spoke with deadly earnestness: "The most lasting foundation for such relations are the Leninist principles of equality of rights of small and great nations...