Word: officialdom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet zone. After talking with them, I voted as far right as I could get." Said a Wiesbaden Hausfrau: "We are fed up with socialization. We know that it means bureaucracy. Our reconstruction would have moved much faster if it had not been snarled up by all this officialdom. Let the businessmen have a chance...
...latest composition of Russia's great Composer Sergei Prokofiev was published in Moscow last week. To the tin ear of Soviet officialdom, it was back on the Russian scale, but to Western ears, it was the most dissonant thing he had ever written. It was a letter of penitent thanks to the party for "the assistance which it is giving me to correct my mistakes" (TIME, Feb. 23). Wrote he: "The committee decision separates the gold from the dross in the composer's work. However painful this may be for a number of composers, including myself, I welcome...
Mayor Denny's letter to TIME illustrates perfectly that complacent attitude of Marion County officialdom toward crime which is culminating in an orgy of rape and murder. Decent citizens won't tolerate...
...must be comforting to Washington officialdom to discover that Russia is no more immune from the ravages of inflation than are the "decadent democracies. Evidently a considerable number of Russians are not above turning a quick ruble by somewhat questionable methods. Evidently some Russians rather fancy the idea of playing capitalist. Otherwise, the Council of Ministers would not have found lit necessary to announce the issue of new currency beginning tomorrow...
Kennedy knows a number of fellow enthusiasts in University officialdom, but has not found any other "Jazz fiends" in University Rall, his home territory. In the Faculty, he eites particularly David Owen, professor of History, with when he frequently gets together for jazz conferences...