Word: bureaucratical
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...editor of the New Criterion, a monthly arts review: "Krens has so far proven himself to be a complete disaster. His conception of a museum is all about expansion. He's a perfect example of what happens to a major cultural institution when it is given over to a bureaucrat...
...unpopular bit of myth debunking called The Boys in Autumn. Now Scott is back as a quintessential foxy grandpa, all harmless cuss words and mock-fierce benevolence, in a sentimental 1938 comedy-drama about an old man's battle of wits with death, personified as the prissy bureaucrat Mr. Brink. Scott's new role may be at the opposite end of the emotional spectrum from his last, but it prompts the same question: Why this play...
...federal bureaucrat, Hoover had thought of becoming a Presbyterian minister before he was hired by the Justice Department as a clerk in July 1917. He so blatantly cultivated an image of pious rectitude that one wit dubbed him "that Virgin Mary in pants." In reality, Hoover was permanently on the take: he decorated his home at government expense, funneled royalties from his ghostwritten books into a private slush fund, accepted free vacations in Florida and California from toadying millionaires. Hoover had no qualms about using gossip about clandestine homosexual encounters for blackmail. Meanwhile, he was seen so often...
...CHEERFUL, FACELESS bureaucrat at ETS tried to make me feel better by assuring me that my problem was not unique to Massachusetts. It was also happening in Virginia, New Jersey, Maryland, New York, Florida--at which point, numbed, I made her stop...
Then there's the 125-mile rule. Fine print says that you're guaranteed to get a seat within 125 miles of your first choice registration site. (This tickled the funny bone of the jolly Bolshie bureaucrat, no cartographer she, who told me they had once sent someone to Baltimore. Hyuk, hyuk...