Word: jargon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Josephus Daniels speaks his long piece honestly and guilelessly in the scrawny indigenous jargon of his trade in his time, and his naivete serves to reveal truths subtler than he suspects. A man who can pay tribute to his wife as "the best helpmeet with which man was ever blessed," who can affectionately reprint his own editorials and funny stories, who can, in the Southern journalist's equivalent of Arthur Kober, refer to a "floundered" submarine, speaks from the photographic heart of what his time and environment have made him, and is incapable of going wrong. Even such...
Medical editors frown upon literary graces as Puritans frowned upon dancing. Almost all medical reports are warty with Greek and Latin jargon: "Etiologic factors" for "causes," "acute coryza" for "the common cold," "osseous structures" for "bones." Yet the modern physician's bible, Sir William Osier's Principles and Practice of Medicine, is a model of warm and lucid prose-human language conveying the fears and torments of sick human beings...
...topic of technique analysis the Conference will hear from Stuart Chase and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lynd, authors of wide reputation. In his "Tyranny of Words" Chase makes a thorough analysis of semantics and the meaning of economic jargon, while in their Middle town series the Lynds present a cultural cross-section of a typical American town...
...Fielding Ogburn has made a special study of trends. He once headed a detachment of the National Resources Committee which, on the basis of trend analysis, listed 13 technologies due for a booming industrial future (TIME, July 26, 1937). Such predictions are made possible by extending (or, in sociological jargon, "extrapolating") into the future the trend line as charted up to the present. Last week Dr. Ogburn observed that trend analysis had enabled U. of C. investigators to estimate the probability of parole violations, of happy or unhappy marriages. Such predictions do not take account of individual exceptions, but-like...
...exposed to the bourgeois perils of running water, Melvyn Douglas and Paris. Unlike most pictures about Russian Reds, this one is neither crude clowning nor crude prejudice, but a literate and knowingly directed satire which lands many a shrewd crack about phony Five Year Plans, collective farms, Communist jargon and pseudo-scientific gab where it will do the most good-on the funny bone...