Word: bureaucratized
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Political demagogues, Administration schemers and bureaucrat conspirators have been known to invoke "secret" reasons related to "Communist" threats and subversion, "national security" or "patriotic" defense of U.S. "honor" in order to cover their illegal or strictly political machinations...
...BUREAUCRAT looks like another, and its the men who hold the political pursestrings that receive the most attention. The first year Bok set up his Administration; the second year he began to select his own people to run it. Exit R. Victor Jones, the dean of the GSAS, in September 1972; exit George Bennett '33, treasurer, the same month (Bennett remained until a successor was chosen); exit John T. Dunlop, dean of the Faculty, in January...
...student committees have fired ideologically errant professors, and white-collar workers have searched their bosses' desks for pornography. The walls of buildings all over Tripoli sport huge cartoons, which serve as the popular primers of the revolution. One depicts two citizens opening up the cranium of a sleeping bureaucrat and complaining: "The revolution has not yet entered into his head...
...prerogatives are a central problem. The prevailing condition in Harvard Houses is one of not-necessarily-benign absolutism. Masters take their titles very seriously, and often enjoy flaunting their powers. The educational value of Harvard undergraduates' spending three years under the example of a petty but absolute academic bureaucrat is questionable...
...There is the Administration figure who got a directive from the White House that went against his agency's policy. He balked. "I'm ordering you," declared the White House aide. "By whose authority?" "The President's," came the answer. "That's funny," answered the bureaucrat, "I thought I was acting under the same authority...