Word: bureaucratic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just as Bok has been learning how he wants to be President, Harvard has been judging him. The judgments have often been harsh. Some have been approving. He has been called arrogant, a maximizer, a cold-hearted bureaucrat who lacks substance. He has been hailed as The Answer--young, efficient, forthright...
...wife Julie, Wendy Walker manages a couple of very good moments as she waxes lyrical in several bathetic incidents. But almost unpardonably she begins giggling at some of her own lines. M. Chouilloux, played by Mark Mosca, is a very consistent, very careful, occasionally startled, war office bureaucrat, outlandishly dressed but with a quiet demeanour...
...never killed." But Eichmann, like the fictional Jepsen, was no mindless cog in the Nazi machine. He was an individual who liked his job and did it well. When Himmler ordered Eichmann near the end of the war to halt the deportation of Hungarian Jews, the outraged bureaucrat threatened to appeal the decision to Hitler. In his own smaller sphere, Jepsen too has a sense of duty that goes beyond the letter of an individual order. "They say you're doing more than anybody's supposed to, anyway more than duty demands of you," a neighbor tells Jepsen...
...time to face facts: Hoover's vaunted success in combatting crime was largely phony. The reputation of his Bureau is built on juggled statistics and skillful public relations. For only in the area of winning public favor did this extraordinary bureaucrat show any talent or originality. For nearly forty years, he bombarded the voters with FBI books, movies, radio shows, comic strips, and television series--all produced by independent companies but carefully censored by the Bureau. The propaganda took; most Americans accepted Hoover as a crusading savior. Few looked beyond to see him as he was: a clever, reactionary bureaucrat...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON '41, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, did not fit my image of the Federal bureaucrat. He was neither paunchy nor pallid from sitting too long under fluorescent light, in fact when a trio of Crimson women interviewed him April 6 he sported a snappy pinstripe suit and a fresh tan from an Asp ex ski weekend...