Word: bureaucratized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yale, teaching law. Professor Douglas thought most of his students were "spoiled brats." His legal articles on high finance prompted Joseph P. Kennedy to bring him to Washington, D.C., in 1934. He soon succeeded Kennedy as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission under Franklin Roosevelt. The professor turned bureaucrat quickly became a regular at F.D.R.'s "command performance" poker games. He also became the President's favorite martini mixer (chilled glasses with lemon rubbed on the rim, and just a taint of vermouth...
...DISCLOSURE of the name did in fact cause the Afro appointment to fall through, it is easy to see why the bureaucrat would think that revealing publicly the discussions of the search committee "was a very bad thing." Similarly, if Bok's advisors are afraid to speak frankly because they suspect their advice will be open to public perusal, it is understandable why the bureaucrat would not want committee reports to become public information...
...point is that the liberal president of a liberal university--like the president of a nation--should not be so quick to assume the purely efficiency-minded bureaucrat's point of view. In fact, if the university president believes in the liberal and democratic ideals which his faculty teaches and which he so freely espouses in defense of academic freedom and his other favorite causes, he should want to avoid the bureaucratic viewpoint like the plague...
...participatory democracy and "technological maturity" where the industrial mode of production complements other more "autonomous" modes of production. He writes, "... Power must be reappropriated and submitted to the sound judgment of the common man. The reconquest of power starts with the recognition that expert knowledge blinds the secretive bureaucrat to the obvious way of dissolving the energy crisis, just as it has blinded him to recognize the obvious solution to the war in Vietnam." The rich must achieve technological maturity by pursuing "the road to liberation from affluence" and the poor must take "the road of liberation from dependence." However...
...been working, and insisting that his staff do the same. Right at the start, Simon promised to meet with newsmen every Thursday to answer any questions that they might ask. He has rigorously kept the pledge, to the horror of some Administration p.r. men, who insist that no bureaucrat can stand that much exposure...