Word: bureaucratism
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...arranged just so (halfway up in the daytime, all the way down at night), promised "periodic inspections . . . to assure compliance." Then he found that many Government workers were writing on only one side of paper. His next order: memos will be typed or printed on both sides. As every bureaucrat knows, writing on both sides does save paper. But as everyone else knows, this makes the writing on either side almost illegible. Later, to clear up a foggy point, Mansure decreed: "Over" will be written at the bottom of the page when both sides are used...
...accuses the Senator of being more than a boor; it shows that he would subvert constitutional guarantees. To manhandle generals and senators is one thing; to manhandle the law is quite another. McCarthy claimed that federal employees are duty bound to give him information, "even though some little bureaucrat has stamped it 'secret' to protect himself." Either he had a right to make such a claim on the prerogatives of the executive, or he didn't. The Watkins Committee should have made this clear one way or the other...
...German bureaucrat who might drop dead worrying over whether he could ever achieve carpet status, Herr Schaffer added a crumb of posthumous comfort: flowers and wreaths, plus ribbons "in such quality suitable to the honor of the deceased," might be sent provided they cost no more than 40 marks ($10)-except of course, in summer, when flowers are cheaper. Then, according to Herr Schaffer, 30 marks at most will provide all the honor necessary...
...each tomb unfinished. Another was to depict wildlife just as it looks. Third, and most important, there was an occasional flicker of human interest. A farm boy giving up his donkey to the tax collector might be shown pouting; a queen playing chess might assume a mysterious smile; a bureaucrat might be counting on his fingers...
Sifting fact from fiction in The Secret Front is made more difficult because Hoettl has not told his personal story, that of a middle-level bureaucrat aching to be a master spy. Though he speaks of "my agents," he never actually commanded any, but merely processed the reports of actual spies and served as a specialist on Central European peoples...