Word: pentagonian
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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This fascination will center about the illusration of the two loose ends of the red tape shown encircling the Pentagonian figure...
...ceilinged concourse, 21 broad stairways lead to 28 bus-loading stations where 750 buses load and unload the building each day. The concourse's walls are lined with shops where the Pentagonian can buy a uniform or a brassiére, a bestseller or a funeral wreath, a birthday cake or a railroad ticket, get a haircut or a loan. Once a guiding officer boasted to visiting General Henri Giraud that the Pentagon office girl could buy both a wedding ring and a baby carriage within its walls. The Frenchman asked: "Which do they buy first...
...Pentagonian always lives "by the book." Confronted with a problem, his instinct is to find a precedent (nothing makes a Pentagonian feel snugger than to curl up inside a precedent), to make a survey, to appoint an "ad hoc" committee, or, if possible, to hand the problem to someone else. When "the flap is on," a process which can be set off by as little as a Congressman's letter or a sudden demand from a Chief of Staff, he responds by producing a protective cloud of paper in which he can safely disappear in a smother of initials...
...corridor Pentagonian makes no basic decisions. He prepares the information for decision by a superior. What is more important than being right is to have thought of all the ways of being wrong. For him, no question can have only two sides. Each, like the building he works in, has at least five sides, none of which is exactly opposite the other. It is a place of the heavily guarded...