Word: bureaucratization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with a punch from so far out in left field there's just no way you can see it coming, but I can't apologize for that." Nor, given the artful conclusion, should he. Stolen Kiss moves up the coastline a bit to Rehobeth, where a longtime Washington bureaucrat now works as a year-round handyman and lives apart from his wife of 39 years. "Thank God," he muses, "for letting us be apart and at peace with the loneliness," although his serenity proves more fragile than he wants to believe...
...using all of them at once. His plump fingers, the nails freshly manicured with clear polish, poke impatiently at the instrument. Visitors flow into the office in a steady stream, yet all the while the man continues a separate dialogue with the console. "He wouldn't be a bureaucrat unless he was in a meeting," he booms into the speaker in a British-accented baritone that is powerful yet velvety. "I want the man, not the message." Poke. A button away, he barks in German, "Cease offers. It is 400 million locked up for the duration." Poke. In French...
...Join a Democratic Party policy forum. Georgetown University Professor Madeleine Albright, who has long been advising Dukakis on foreign policy, has seen her international-affairs advisory group more than double in size. Fred Wertheimer, director of Common Cause, spins out the pre-election ploys in a bureaucrat's rendition of rap: "You panel, you travel, you visit, you appear. Most of all, you be there...
...last fall to what looked like a caretaker's post, to pad out what was already the longest resume in Washington (positions in seven different agencies -- "one ahead of Elliot Richardson," he jokes). But acting like a caretaker is not in the nature of Carlucci, a far from faceless bureaucrat who boasts that in all his jobs "I don't think anybody has accused me of not having my say." Notably small in stature (around 5 ft. 5 in.), he compensates with aggressiveness and a reputation for wearing down opponents, on the tennis court or in the corridors of power...
...working for Dukakis or Bush seems about as interesting as listening to them, are the only high-energy careers left for Harvard graduates in investment banking, consulting, or making superconductors? Does entering public service mean doing social work that relies on dwindling federal funds or being an anonymous bureaucrat in the Department of Inefficiency...