Word: bureaucratism
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...chopping-up and brightening around the edges still hasn't altered much of Voice of America's bedrock mediocrity. VOA [Dec. 9] still sounds like some bureaucrat's idea of everyman's radio entertainment. I've had enough of interviews with Midwestern chicken farmers and the supercilious, you're-not-too-bright enunciation American announcers have been instructed to use. I'll take the BBC's thoroughly professional and human sound. Besides, their reception is a whole lot clearer...
...even get purple prose. Olive-drab words backed by properly inspected facts do the honors. Today's armies, those huge agglomerations of men and machines required for warfare by great industrial states, still need platoon leaders and even heroes; but above all they need a military bureaucrat, a lord of the files...
...colonizers did nothing to alter the compadre system under which a Filipino bureaucrat was permitted to skim the cream from his tax collections and distribute it to his poor friends and relations; as a result, graft and corruption are still the Manila way of life. Nor did the Americans break up the vast estates of the principalia, the Filipino elite; peasants today still pay up to 30% of their crop to absentee landlords, and the rest often goes to local loan sharks. By granting free tariffs to Philippine producers of sugar, lumber and hemp, the U.S. reinforced a backward primary...
...seldom sees a bureaucrat without a pipe or with a hat, his habitat is corridors, he takes his exercise indoors, he is always somewhere in between two meetings where he should have...
...bureaucrat is seldom seen without a pen-or with a dream...