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...timeservers and Organization Men in high places are aware of one thing-that a big shot in Moscow has a pet scheme of his own regarding drainpipes, and that no Soviet citizen should ever, if he values his security, "get in the way of influential people." As Bureaucrat Drozdov, the novel's villain, tells Lopatkin: "Your mistake consists in being an individual on his own. The lone wolf is out of date." To his wife Nadia. Drozdov is even franker. "Whenever [Lopatkin] came to see me," he says, "he always held his head like this" -and Drozdov throws...
...that requires no score cards to tell heroes from villains. Such paladins of power and profit as Physicist John Gait, Steelmaker Hank Rearden, Billionaire Francisco d'Anconia all have noble, proudly lifted heads, clear blue (or green) eyes, frank, open expressions. Such blackguards as traitorous Businessman Orren Boyle, Bureaucrat Cuffy Meigs, Parasite Philip Rearden have eyes that are "pale and veiled" or "small black slits" or "blurred brown"; they can never meet anyone's gaze; they have hangdog expressions and poor postures. In fact, the struggle is so unequal that it is a wonder it takes the capitalist...
...England (with its preoccupation with theology, place and power, and its spiritual ferment). To this was added a fantastic, ramshackle bureaucracy with bewhiskered officials dedicated to the ledgers of obscurantism. Gogol's own parents typified that society. His mother was a pious, eccentric ninny; his father a sometime bureaucrat in the chaotic Russian post office as well as the owner of 3,000 acres, 384 serfs and a vodka distillery...
...thought it an act of providence, and pursued the matter no further. Jeanne Derock, on the other hand, was mystified and indignant. Unwillingly taking the boy she had registered as Louise, she made no effort to change his legal name, instead began a long and dusty march from bureaucrat to bureaucrat, seeking restitution of her daughter...
Political Career. Well established as a business tycoon (pulp, chemicals) when finally "depurged" in 1952, onetime Bureaucrat Kishi took a long, hard look at resurgent Japan. went into politics. He soon became the dominant figure in the backstage maneuverings from which: 1) Japan's two big feuding conservative parties, the Liberals and the Democrats, were merged into the gigantic Liberal-Democratic Party and ranged in solid opposition to the Socialists and Communists; and 2) Kishi himself emerged last winter as Foreign Minister under 72-year-old Premier Tanzan Ishibashi. Four months ago, Nobusuke Kishi became his country...