Word: officialdom
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Actually, Canadian officialdom's views on China have changed reluctantly since the days when it was popularly believed that the Red Chinese were the sponsors of a humane land reform movement. Canada in 1950 was all set to recognize the Chinese Communist government, and the Korean war upset the plan. Canadian diplomats now admit that Canada "would have looked awfully foolish and inept if we'd gone through with recognition." They also confess that they did not expect the Chinese Reds "to be as vicious as they became" in Korea. But disillusioned though they have been on some...
...good fortune has been that the local officialdom agrees with us, or at least that it goes along far enough to grant us independence. It is true, of course, that the College has at times tried to assert control, but these assaults have come only spasmodically. Whether relief in those cases came from higher officials or from the deans' self-restraint is obscure, but what is important is that all such attempts have failed...
Official power to pick and choose among groups which apply for use of the Good Name, regardless of their compliance with the rules, means a return to the bad old days of arbitrary meddling that existed before students and officialdom decided on the present regulations. Regardless of this revisitation's innocence, Dean Watson's announcement smacks of a paternalism we would rather forget...
...said one of Mamie's old girl friends last week, "don't worry about Mamie rising to any occasion. I saw her in Europe. I was terribly impressed with all the royalty and officialdom, but Mamie wasn't. There was this King Haakon, and there was Mamie, talking with her hands, just as peppy as ever...
...Commuters in the long-range struggle to rid themselves of a second-class student standing. Their demands are fair; the ratio of books they propose to take out is in ratio with their number. Since resident students have informally approved the Commuters' demands, the last obstruction, short of Lamont officialdom, has been razed...