Word: bureaucratism
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Frustrated Journalist. Frankfurter, the immigrant boy, became in turn an attorney, a federal bureaucrat, professor of the Harvard Law School, supplier of legal brains (Frankfurter's "happy hot dogs") to the New Deal and a guest professor at Oxford before his 1939 appointment to the Supreme Court. Along with an impressive intellect. Frankfurter has a sparrow's cockiness and a high-pitched, pedantic voice that often drives opponents to distraction. During the 19305 he was disliked and feared by conservatives as the legal strategist of F.D.R.'s onslaught on "economic royalists." As a member of the Supreme...
...Howard faction of liberals crystallizes, so does an anti-Howard clique of conservatives, and the short-fused passions of left v. right detonate. Playing Zola to Howard's Dreyfus is a man of good will and strong character, Lewis Eliot, the upper-echelon bureaucrat and first-person narrator who either dominates or "I" witnesses most of the Snow novels. What Eliot gradually collects is not so much the evidence to clear Howard as the ambiguous human motives-sly, cynical, stoic, self-serving, occasionally selfless-that convict all would-be judges...
...Superior Valet. First and greatest of the dandies, of course, was George Bryan Brummell. The son of a well-to-do bureaucrat (he confounded criticism of his birth by claiming that "my father was a very superior valet, and kept his place all his life"), Beau Brummell in his teens became the friend of the fat, feckless Prince of Wales. By dressing with unheard-of care and severity-he used only two colors, blue for his coat and buff for his waistcoat and trousers-and by developing a haughty silence that could strike like a thunderclap, Brummell made himself...
Republican Doerfer, a longtime Wisconsin politician and bureaucrat, and a protégé of Senator Alexander Wiley and ex-Governor Walter Kohler, went to Washington in 1953 as a member of the FCC, was elevated to the chairmanship...
...shows the stomach of the main character in this story," the narrator calmly announces. "Symptoms of cancer can be detected. But he is still unaware of the fact." The face of the victim (Takashi Shimura) fills the screen. He is a dull-eyed, dried-up, middle-aged bureaucrat, a worn and fading rubber stamp. He goes to the hospital, learns his fate: six months to live. He is shattered. For the first time in 30 years he misses work-one. two, three days in a row. He starts to drink. "I can't die." he mumbles to a stranger...