Word: parkinsonian
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Baron von Novotny. The economy may be chronically short of workers, but it supports a Parkinsonian proliferation of officials. There are 29 "technical" specialists for every 100 production workers in industry as a whole; in some heavy-engineering plants, two out of three employees are "experts." Czech clerks dully obey detailed instructions that minutely specify every routine from stowing their rubber stamps to writing form letters with "psychologically effective opening and closing phrases...
...Committee's Parkinsonian recommendation that yet another dean be appointed, which is the standard remedy of the unimaginative bureaucrat, not only stands as witness to the sterility of its discussions, but its members highlight the incompetence of their research by demonstrating quite clearly that they checked only faculty and student opinions and forgot to check out the teaching fellows themselves. The Committee is clearly unaware that major attractions of the job are the acceptance of responsibility, the opportunity to test one's own ideas and the chance to establish unstructured and informal support with students, all of which are more...
...wheeled back to his room, the uncontrollable tremor, the involuntary bending of the arm and turning in of the thumb on the right side had disappeared. In a few months, both patients will return to Iowa City for treatment of the ansa lenticularis on the right, to halt the Parkinsonian movements of their left sides...
...epidemic occurred in St. Louis in 1933. Cause of the disease is a virus of which little is known. Its most prominent symptoms are high fever, headache, delirium, restlessness or lethargy, double-vision, paralysis or involuntary jerking of fingers, arms, legs. Unpredictable are its after-effects which may include "parkinsonian mask," (complete absence of facial expression), insanity, sexual perversion, tremors and tics of all types...