Word: parkinsonism
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...statement to the effect that the size of the job done by a civil servant will be more important than the size of his staff, budget and office is a direct threat to all loyal bureaucrats. Arise one and all and prevent this wanton attempt to repeal Parkinson...
...Parkinson's Law. At first, the world intrudes through a copy of TIME, which has drifted up the Congo and which carries a cover story on the great architect.* Thus Querry, seeking nothing but anonymity, is doomed to the martyrdom of the fame he has repudiated. Later, the outside world in its total corruption is personified, as it has been so often before in novels, by a British popular journalist, and ex-London Timesman Greene must be presumed to know his type faces. Montagu Parkinson is in the Congo "for the riot," but a rumor about Querry...
...Parkinson is a man more grotesquely awful than the lepers, given to misquoting tag lines from the great English anthology poets, and he is dead set on making Querry into another Albert Schweitzer, a sacred cow sanctified by journalism. With facts dug up from the newspaper morgue, involving the suicide of Querry's mistress, the correspondent is determined that his own Parkinson's Law ("A truth is a truth insofar as it is believed") will override the private legislation in Querry's dead soul...
...fashioned the company's 1940 merger with E. A. Pierce, its 1941 merger with Fenner & Beane, and in 1958 finally got his own name on the door of the world's largest international investment house as the directing partner, becoming board chairman a year later; of Parkinson's disease; in Litchfield, Conn. Modest but shrewd, Smith brought Main Street to Wall Street by directing a massive advertising drive aimed at turning middle-income families into a mass mar ket for securities, boosted Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith's customers to 450,000 and its gross annual...
...CHESS PLAYERS (533 pp.) - Frances Parkinson Keyes - Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...