IN PASSING

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31339, 8 April 1967, Page 4

IN PASSING

Mr Lloyd Kaplan of the New York dty planning commission has been compiling a guide te the jargon ef his trade. Hie single most useful word in what he calls the plannlsh language he finds is "facility.” There are waterfront faculties, health faculties, recreation facilities and even facility facilities. “Project” is always a noun and never a verb, and as plaoning becomes more comprehensive, Individual projects are giving way to "developments,” complexes” and, ef course, faculties. Another favourite la “feasible,” which must he compared with its synonyms “possible” and "plausible.” The rule Is that everything is possible, much is plausible but Utile to tsaslUe. "Breekthroughs” are often not feasible because ef insufficient "resources.” Money to never mentioned as such. Improving the lot ef the peer (er “under-prlvUeged” er “disadvantaged”) to defined as “climbing the “socioeconomic ladder” or "achieving upward mobility” or “providing opportunity advancement.” Mr Kaplan is toying with the notion ef a thesaurus called “newspeak made simpUfax.” "Perhaps if I «eve right along with this,” he says, * “I can have it ready te be pubUshed early in 1984.”—From the “As It Happens” eeiamn in “The Times.”