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...situation was further complicated when Moscow's Pushkin Museum beat the Hermitage to the punch by setting up in February a hastier and less focused show of Impressionist paintings, together with some older ones by Goya, El Greco and others. Its director, Irina Antonova, a cultural bureaucrat in the traditional Soviet style, made no suggestion that these works were going anywhere after the show-least of all to Germany. "Soviet troops saved these artworks, while the fascists wrecked ours," she declared at a press conference. "We deserve some form of compensation...
While such feelings of discomfort may be unwarranted, they cannot be wiped away with the simple stroke of a bureaucrat's pen. Homosexuals are not accepted in society by many Americans. This fact can only be changed over time, if it is to be changed at all. To force such a drastic change on the military would be to dismiss entirely the primary purpose of the armed forces. The military is designed to win wars as quickly and with as few casualties as possible. It is a not a laboratory in which social engineers may perform their experiments at will...
...that was near the beginning of Bok's 20-year term. By the end of his tenure, many considered the former president a distant bureaucrat, The Crimson reported in 1992. In contrast, newcomer Rudenstine, upon his arrival, immediately began to foster the image of a down-to-earth populist...
...Templeton's decision was not that of a miserly curmudgeon. He has generously donated most of his billion dollar fortune to charities. Of course, without U.S. citizenship, he--instead of some faceless bureaucrat--decides where his money goes...
...socially conscious TV movies. The Mother deals with a social problem -- what is best for old people? -- yet it has no agenda, makes no statements, foments no outrage. There are no bad people to blame for the old woman's plight: a self-involved son, say, or a callous bureaucrat. Even the garmentmaker who fires her is a decent man under cruel commercial pressures. Nor does Chayefsky rail against "the system." If there's any culprit, it is simply -- pardon the expression -- the human condition...