Word: bureaucrat
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...agencies* under one office, named the Social and Rehabilitation Service (SRS). To Washington's surprise, Gardner went over the heads of HEW's brightest young men and selected as the first boss of SRS a 67-year-old spinster who glories in the often maligned name of bureaucrat...
...obligingly disappeared. But in a country where papers, records, stamps and signatures are of surpassing importance, Günther's eventual exposure was perhaps not so surprising. It was the initial lie about his age that tripped him up. Shuffling old and new papers, a minor West Berlin bureaucrat noticed the seven year discrepancy in ages; after that, the tissue of Günther's life shredded away quickly...
...scene that draws forever the line between the poet and the square, Hamlet, prince and poet, converses with the busy bureaucrat Polonius...
...actress in and out of character with precisely the right degree of mannerism, preserving her identity as both a woman and a woman of the theatre. And Arthur Friedman, despite gestures which become too broad a little too often, is a properly ugly, self-assured and obedient cultural bureaucrat...
Even with a blue-ribbon candidate and a more expertly managed campaign, the G.O.P. would probably have fared little better. Daley is an autocrat, a Democrat and a bureaucrat in that order, and handles all three roles with zeal and efficiency. Though skeptics might reverse his slogan-"Good government is good politics"-King Richard has made it work well enough to satisfy the "big mules" of Chicago's power structure. Nudged by the nation's most formidable political machine, the city's rank-and-file voters agreed...