Word: bureaucrats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kosygin then resorted to his more vicious side. Kosygin is aggressive and a bureaucrat. He is noted in the Soviet Union for having served for thirteen years in government posts under Stalin without being liquidated by Beria-the Stalin Minister of the Interior-or sent to Siberia, as was the fate of all those who worked under Stalin. Not one of them except Kosygin was spared-as Khrushchev told us when he visited Egypt...
Still, The Fury is fine popular entertainment. Kirk Douglas, as the father, mobilizes a kind of crazy energy he has not displayed since he was a much younger actor; John Cassavetes is deliciously evil as the bureaucrat-villain. De Palma, like Alfred Hitchcock, is a superb technician, sure and subtle in such matters as camera placement and editing. These are skills that are often overlooked when they are not employed in the service of "serious" themes...
...plan is like the classic response of the bureaucrat, or parent whose children are getting older and more independent--it's much easier to try to control, rather than to trust and have faith in the outcome. The faculty's solution to the muddled state of undergraduate education mirrors the kind of responses we are used to seeing in the rest of society. When the crime rate goes up, people cry for law and order and a larger police force--they don't try to eliminate the problems which cause the crime. Too much of our society tries to outmuscle...
...several months now, since the departure of Baaron Pittenger to the U.S. Olympic Committee, the position of associate director of athletics has remained vacant. The easy way to fill such an opening would be to appoint yet another bureaucrat skilled in the various aspects of athletic administration...
...island. They bring hundreds of cash customers who thwack through the tangantangan in search of ancestral skeletons -though any human bones will do. These are then burned to release the spirits of the dead, while the living grow nostalgically misty-eyed on tours of old bunkers. Says one local bureaucrat with profound seriousness: "The only problem I can foresee for the Marianas is running out of bones. We are aware of the shortage, and one of our men in resources development is looking for realistic substitutes...