Word: officialdom
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...really belong in the funnies. A more appropriate setting would be a political pamphlet-or possibly reform school. Annie has personally accounted for a fair share of her violent ambiance. Between murders, she inveighs against such evils as the federal income tax, the welfare state, Madison Avenue, most officialdom, and "left-wingers"-a term that Artist Gray applies to all Democrats...
...Antonio Saura, 34, is a slender Castilian who abandoned surrealism for the most tortured expressionism seen in present-day Spanish art. He sprays cynicism as he sprays his oils: "A renaissance of the arts in Spain today?" says he. "Oh come now. It is an art of protest against officialdom. The present cultural level is pretty grim. The artist must sell abroad if he is to survive...
...opinion will accept being told that the war is endless, or as a U.S. official in Saigon puts it: "Only a fool would pick a date when we can consider the job done. Three years? Five years? Ten? Fifteen? You make your own bets." One even suspects that in officialdom there is a tendency to take the war for granted. Some Administration policymakers are fond of pointing out that more Americans are killed in traffic accidents in Washington, D.C.. each year than in the Viet Nam war-while adding, with more logic, that a single battle in a major...
High Noon? The U.S., as President Johnson reiterated in June, "seeks no wider war." Yet even as it tried to shush Khanh, American officialdom privately conceded anew that retaliation against the north has not been ruled out. At least three turns of events could trigger direct retaliation against North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh: 1) assassination of Khanh by the Viet Cong, 2) a renewed terrorist campaign against...
When Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opened in Prague recently, its title was changed to Who's Afraid of Franz Kafka? The switch was significant. Not only did it mark Czech officialdom's resurrection of Kafka from the Communist limbo of "degenerate individualism," but it also reflected the intellectual ferment behind the Iron Curtain that made Kafka's redemption possible...