Word: bureaucrats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rarely seen in public in Moscow, Philby enjoyed all the privileges of a favored bureaucrat, including an apartment in the capital and a dacha, and never once regretted his decision. "I want to be buried in the Soviet Union, in this country which I have considered to be my own since the 1930s," he said. Last week he got his wish, after a funeral with full military honors...
Kalt said yesterday on Native American affairs,"It's real to the tribe. It's not all that real toa bureaucrat...
Unlike some of the other candiates, Lee is not a lifetime bureaucrat. The political process is far too tedious a game for Lee, who offers practical solutions. "If someone's doing something wrong," he says, "slap him upside the head and tell him he's full of shit." Lee, a long-time vegetarian, explains he means that literally--that some people, specifically those who eat red meat, actually are full...
Diary introduces the darker side of Gogol's oeuvre. Like Nose, it traces the daily struggles of a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. Diary's audience, however, does not get a humorous look at a silly, petty outsider but dwells within the mind of a man tortured by his own lowly position within the inflexible class lines of Russian society and accompanies him on his gradual descent into a hell of madness and self-torment...
...with his sheared hair, unshaven face and ripped pajamas, appears a convincing lunatic. Moreover, he delivers his many long monologues with the curious self-absorption of a madman, drawing the audience into his twisted world where dogs write letters, the earth is crashing into the moon and a Russian bureaucrat can discover that he's actually the king of Spain. As he loses himself more and more in his delusions, the real pain behind his situation becomes clear, and the audience realizes that class boundaries separate him forever from the general's daughter with whom he has fallen in love...