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...several months now, since the departure of Baaron Pittenger to the U.S. Olympic Committee, the position of associate director of athletics has remained vacant. The easy way to fill such an opening would be to appoint yet another bureaucrat skilled in the various aspects of athletic administration...
...island. They bring hundreds of cash customers who thwack through the tangantangan in search of ancestral skeletons -though any human bones will do. These are then burned to release the spirits of the dead, while the living grow nostalgically misty-eyed on tours of old bunkers. Says one local bureaucrat with profound seriousness: "The only problem I can foresee for the Marianas is running out of bones. We are aware of the shortage, and one of our men in resources development is looking for realistic substitutes...
...Carter's sensible proclamation would have brought to the parsimonious New Hampshirite who had to spend $26.23 in postage to mail the bulky forms for a license renewal for his small radio station. Pity the distress the Carter doctrine will cause the Occupational Safety and Health Administration bureaucrat who propounded the 39-word, single-sentence definition of EXIT: "That portion of a means of egress which is separated from all other spaces of the building or structure by construction or equipment as required in this subpart to provide a protected way of travel to the exit discharge...
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This habit of skipping past the physical toward the philosophical makes The City Builder an altogether less-urgent narrative than The Case Worker. The bureaucrat hero has evidently led an interesting, if calamitous life, but he strews the details so negligently through his thoughts that only the most vigilant reader can piece them together. Konrád tries to atone for such cold impersonality by giving his builder a warm, strenuously rhetorical prose style (gracefully rendered by Translator Ivan Sanders). The effect is often striking. Konrád's metaphors can go off like depth charges: "Marble-faced generals...