Word: officialdom
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...Soviet high command's unofficial permission to put to the jocular test the knowledge and alertness of high Soviet bureaucrats. They invented a fanciful Academy of Plans for Transcosmic Sciences and a subsidiary Trust for the Exploitation of Meteoric Iron. But they needed that high sign of Soviet officialdom, a rubber stamp. So they advertised that they had lost their rubber stamp and promptly a bureaucrat gave them permission to have one made...
...fact that the decision to reopen the library was taken immediately after the close of the examination period is a perfect example of the way in which the red tape of Harvard officialdom can hold up reforms when they are most needed. But the student will be inclined to forgive the needless delay, confident that the University will not again allow a policy of indiscriminate economy to interfere with the availability of the library...
...have them unobtrusively enforced, to make them "generally understood." But the prohibition itself is in the best of University Hall form. It is conservative, sober, and unexplained. To obviate confusion, the President has ruled that no undergraduate may bring liquor into the dining halls. That is all, and for officialdom, that is enough...
...Russia's most trenchantly successful pens. Sharp of nose, chin, ear and eye, with black hair dipping into an acute widow's peak, Kataev is 36, just about the right age for a New Russian. His earlier book (The Embezzlers ) was written with such humorous disregard of officialdom that U. S. readers wondered about Russia's censorship. In Russia Kataev is one of the most widely read and one of the most popular of Russia's playwrights. His Squaring the Circle had a long run at the Moscow Art Theatre Studio, was produced by Max Reinhardt...
...most modern states a small case of simple graft would not be news. But as Premier Sulimov maintained last week his public rage, his investigation of the garbage soap, a tremor ran through Soviet officialdom. In Soviet Russia simple graft is punishable by death...