Word: bureaucrat
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...here that the twists take place--these stock characters have taken on new characteristics. Control is no ruthlessly efficient genius, but a pompous, vain bureaucrat who "always likes to be in on a good thing." Lemas has his bureaucratic side too, and he too is proud, often petty, knowing that he is working for a ruthless machine, but unwilling to stop...
...Committee's Parkinsonian recommendation that yet another dean be appointed, which is the standard remedy of the unimaginative bureaucrat, not only stands as witness to the sterility of its discussions, but its members highlight the incompetence of their research by demonstrating quite clearly that they checked only faculty and student opinions and forgot to check out the teaching fellows themselves. The Committee is clearly unaware that major attractions of the job are the acceptance of responsibility, the opportunity to test one's own ideas and the chance to establish unstructured and informal support with students, all of which are more...
...Contrary Experience, by Herbert Read. Born in time to be chased through the entire 20th century, Sir Herbert has been a fine soldier, successful bureaucrat, acclaimed critic, and in this memoir he comments on his complex life as one of the "alienated souls" who seek values without the support of religion...
...Contrary Experience, by Herbert Read. A singular Englishman with a gift for plural and paradoxical living-he has been both a pacifist and a decorated soldier, an anarchist and a successful bureaucrat-British Critic Read tells the rich and readable story of his lives...
...pacifist who has earned a decoration for gallantry in battle, an anarchist who has been a successful bureaucrat, a farmer's son who is famous as an exponent of esthetic theory, a spokesman for the avant-garde who can nevertheless write in praise of an idyllic past. The typical Englishman who is all these things is Sir Herbert Read, 69, a highly singular man who needs not one but four autobiographies to do justice to his talent for plural living...