Word: bureaucrats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uninvolved city parents, white and black, who had been content to let the schools run themselves, became personally involved in their children's schools, and their operation. Those who were "radicalized" by the strike are not likely to continue to let the professional-teacher, supervisor, board-of-education bureaucrat-have full say in the question of what should be taught...
Wallace's half-hour finale exuded cheerless defeat. The candidate and his running mate General LeMay sat behind bare, petty-bureaucrat desks, the General seated not really next to Wallace but off well to the left, not so near as to be frightening but available just in case we need a little of that nuclear hardware...
...were a lot of people who came to the Garden to witness a rip-snorting rally, a sort of raucous entertainment. Disappointed, they cursed the food salesmen who told them, "We're not selling beer because too many kids are here." I wondered briefly whether some Wallace-loving municipal bureaucrat was getting subtle revenge on the peace movement. Celtics' games, anyone knows, attract at least as many kids and everybody drinks. But political sanity, it must be supposed, hardly warrants the diversion Bill Russell and the gang...
...real problem is that the residents of the area in silent general and Vellucci in noisy particular know in their hearts that the Federal bureaucrat is right--but for themselves and for non-monetary reasons. Everyone there would cash in and move out if they weren't so attached to the neighborhood and to the distinctive way of life that characterizes...
Baffle-Gab Theology Sir: Re your Baffle-Gab Thesaurus [Sept. 13], you failed to note that the bureaucrat selecting 257, "systematized logistical projection," would undoubtedly also feel compelled to invent a suitable acronym for his invention: in this case, SLOP...