Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR by NIKOLAI GOGOL...
...fully developed bureaucracy is the most ludicrous form of tyranny. Petty, self-important and stupid men, who in themselves amount to nothing, become bloated with their functions and turn authority into farce. This is the central aspect of Gogol's 140-year-old surrealistic satire The Government Inspector...
...plot of The Government Inspector is deceptively simple. The mayor of a small Russian town-his name, Anton Antonovich Skuoznik Dmukhanovsky, is almost larger than his constituency-has received a letter indicating that the equivalent of an IRS investigator has been dispatched from the capital to examine the town's fiscal books. Since the mayor (George S. Irving) and his cronies are as crooked as counterfeit rubles, they are understandably distressed...
Poirot: deceased. Maigret: retired. Martin Beck, Commander Gideon, Inspector West: gone, all gone with the recent deaths of their creators. Of the old breed, only Nero Wolfe is still doing business at the same old stand, his orchidaceous town house in Manhattan, backed and fronted as always by the ineffable Archie Goodwin. Like his corpulent hero, Author Rex Stout, 89, continues to confound the actuarial tables-and his followers. In this latest outing, Stout ups the stakes of the game he plays with readers. Three-quarters of the way through, Narrator Archie realizes the identity of the criminal and concedes...
...five or more employees and strengthens the position of the union safety steward elected by the employees. The employer now has the burden of proof in a dispute about dangerous working conditions, enabling the safety steward to stop production he considers dangerous pending a judgement from the state safety inspector. The employer must also provide information called for by the safety steward or safety committee in larger plants including plans for proposed changes in plant layout and equipment. Such changes can then be held up in the interest of health and safety...