Word: bureaucratizing
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...cradle and the grave. His acts of treason are not rooted in greed or politics. They are delayed rebellions not only against a criminal father but against a system that appears only slightly better. "You have a lawyer's training, you have Czech language and Czech expertise," a personnel bureaucrat tells a reassigned spy. "More appropriately you have a thoroughly sleazy mind. Apply it . . . We expect terrible things of you." This sort of thing comes dangerously close to self-pity: the best and the brightest suffering the scorn of their intellectual inferiors. It is not a pretty picture...
...rimless glasses, thinning hair and off-the-rack gray suit make him look more like a middle-management bureaucrat than the leader of a paranoid political cult. But when Lyndon LaRouche opens his mouth, the conspiracy theories come tumbling out. In a rare public appearance last week at the National Press Club, LaRouche leveled a litany of accusations at the likes of White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan (for "drug-money laundering" while head of Merrill Lynch), former Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy (for financing the Weatherman radicals in the late 1960s), and even one Agnes Harrison...
...last week, Waldheim replied, "I hear for the first time (now) that there were deportations of Jews from Greece." Countered Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'rith: "If he did not know what was going on . . . he was probably the world's most incompetent bureaucrat. If he knew, he is a liar...
...original production at Actors Theater of Louisville last year, the characters engaged in a kind of perverse romance, with each wistfully trying to break down barriers. In Chicago, the struggle is for power: Morton endows the woman with toughness, and Peterson portrays the questioner as an unimaginative bureaucrat striving for advancement. Remains has made the show less lyrical but more contemporary, a document of the implacability of all unjust governments...
...answer is non-answers," was one comment leveled at Fox. "A typical Harvard bureaucrat;" "he hides behind other student-faculty groups and other deans;" "seen as very distant," were other student voices heard when Fox stepped down...