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...teammates last week. "We've really caught fire," says Left Wing Johnny Bucyk, 32, a twelve-year veteran who is well on his way to his finest season -with 19 goals and 18 assists so far, making him the No. 3 scorer in the league. Borrowing pro-football lingo, Defenseman Ted Green says that "this year we're blitzing. Last year, we'd drop back 15 yards and punt." The man who lit the blaze in Boston is a baby-faced 19-year-old named Bobby Orr, who in only his second big-league season is already...
...boss to come down hard on someone she dislikes. When a personnel functionary (whose child does not learn to talk but to "verbalize") searches for a damning phrase, he hotly charges a subordinate with "unilateral action." Even workers in the "field" when making a report must learn the lingo that will impress their chiefs back in the glass house: "As you know, the object of the Civic Coordination Programme is to tap the dynamics of social change in terms of local aspirations for progress...
Stage humor is in transition. The old humor of the gag and the wise crack was confident, benign, a pick-me-up rather than a putdown. The new humor, which draws its tone from play wrights such as Albee and Pinter, is cruel, taut-nerved, and speaks the lingo of the obscene and the absurd, not funny-ha-ha but funny-peculiar. The new humor reigns in off-Broadway's Scuba Duba, a flagellatingly funny first play by Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman (Stern, A Mother's Kisses...
...treatment of such subjects, which often are not in the week's headlines but which relate in an important way to the lives of nearly everyone, that absorbs much of the time and attention of the sections in TIME that we, in office lingo, call "Back of the Book." The people involved in these stories are not necessarily well known. Take, for example, THE LAW'S chilling story about one Clarence Jackson, who was a successful businessman in Phoenix, worth perhaps a quarter of a million dollars, until luck, lawyers and the law, in a bizarre series...
...paper, the T.S.U. Herald, suddenly began to print articles and editorials highly critical of the administration and, in some cases, of the faculty. The monthly Herald had previously been the equivalent of the sad product of countless small college journalism departments, where the students learn type sizes and newspaper lingo by transcribing the college's official press release. But, under the editorship of Charles Johnson, the Herald underwent a change that was quite disturbing to the administration...