Word: servantish
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This characterization of the British Broadcasting Corp. appeared in Claud Cockburn's leftist London newsletter, The Week. British radio listeners might quarrel with it but few of them would deny that something ought to be done about civil-servantish BBC. Last week, as the time for renewal of BBC's Government charter neared, British voices spoke up and said so. BBC countered with what amounted to a top-drawer shakeup...
...illogical arrangement which clicks perfectly in practice, Egypt has the status of an "independent kingdom" controlled by the British Government. As Britons return home from bearing the white man's burden in Egypt they are apt to join the Nile Club and last week in London this civil-servantish clique mustered its tailcoats and stiff shirts, its last year's evening gowns and small family pearls to be addressed by His Excellency the Ethiopian Minister, Dr. Azaj Wargneh C. Martin and his 9-year-old son, John Martin...
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