Word: technocrat
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...years when Georgy Malenkov was Stalin's personnel manager, he helped his boss build up a hierarchy of young technocrat-commissars. To get his men into key jobs, Malenkov had to shove out many a stubborn old Bolshevik. At the Commissariat of Heavy Industry, where old-line Commissar Ordzhonikidze gave notice that he would resist purging, Malenkov quietly put in his own security chief. The new man quickly turned over the commissariat's personnel files to the NKVD (central secret police), thus putting them in a position to purge most of Ordzhonikidze's engineers...
...star of Georgy Malenkov and his technocrat-commissars was on the wane, that of Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev rapidly rising. Shortly after Malenkov's dramatic resignation (February 1955), the world learned that Kruglov was not, after all, top Soviet security man, but that there had existed for some months a higher State Security Committee, presided over by Kruglov's former deputy Ivan Serov. When Khrushchev went junketing to India, it was Serov who went along with him. Meanwhile, Minister Kruglov's department was under oblique criticism: his organization had failed to curb abuses in such pet Khrushchev...
...From my viewpoint, as a Technocrat,* the entire problem could best be summed up thus: for our physical needs we try to create an abundance-by using the technique of creating an artificial scarcity to keep prices up-so we may obtain enough money to purchase that abundance out of the scarcity. In short, we seek abundance and scarcity simultaneously...
...devil abroad in his 20th Century world is the ultra-rational scientist-technocrat, for whom man is the measure of all things; who would storm heaven with test tubes, nuclear fission and pure reason. Of one of his satanic prototypes Lewis says: "He had passed from Hegel into Hume, thence through Pragmatism, and thence through Logical Positivism, and out at last into the complete void...
...worked for TVA. In twelve years it had become one of the wonders of the New World, and a pride of the South. In the beginning it had been something from outside, alien: a plan for dams, turbines, reforestation, agricultural improvement, and who knew what else, flung like a Technocrat's nightmare across the sacred boundaries of seven states. Dave Lilienthal was simply another of Felix Frankfurter's young men from the Harvard Law School, a New Deal wonder boy who had fought utility companies. But as the dams rose in the Tennessee Valley, the reputation of Dave...