Word: gobbledygook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vocal effects. The Little Blue Man climbed the charts briefly because it had a whiningly metallic voice whispering "I wuv you" at periodic intervals; a new record called What'd He Say? consists of a series of bewildered questioners trying to ungarble answers that invariably degenerate into taped gobbledygook just when it looks as if they were going somewhere. The most successful of the species, and the one that everybody wants to imitate, is Singer Sheb Wooley's Purple People Eater, which is not only the fastest-selling novelty in five years but something of a national crisis...
...from Du Pont last week came a new liquid gas dubbed Freon C-318. While the name was just so much gobbledygook to consumers, the gas itself may play a big part in their lives. If tests prove successful, C-318 will bring a vast expansion of the aerosol industry by making possible a big new pantry of liquid-gas-dispensed foods such as frostings, sandwich spreads, sauces and syrups. Until now, aerosol foods have been slowed by the fact that the liquid gases used in nonfood products have been ruled out by the Food and Drug Administration. (Compressed gases...
With Dewey's world so demonstrably in tatters, one might think the educationists would run up the white flag. Far from it. Entrenched in public school administrations, they defend with the adhesiveness of a band of brothers every article of their gobbledygook canons. In Holland, Mich, the Christian' High School, a respected institution of impeccable academic standards, has recently been denied accreditation by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools because it refused to dilute its academic standards with shop and cooking courses. A sample of the canons by which such schools are judged...
...program that has been approved by the Joint Chiefs and authorized by Congress: "You should shoot them, or drown them or put 'em in jail." Summed up Donald W. Douglas Sr., president of Douglas Aircraft Co. (Thor): "What we need most is more guts and less gobbledygook...
While solidly behind the objectives of brainstorming, many businessmen nevertheless see plenty of faults in the plan itself, think that it may be getting out of hand. They object to all the hoopla and gobbledygook about "creative ideation," "buzz sessions," "idearamas," "imagineering," etc. One thing they fear is that the emphasis on group thinking may produce the very regimentation it seeks to avoid. Another problem is the difficulty of screening out 59 or even 149 wildly impossible ideas to get to work on one good...