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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pe... ...ennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley ... ... same streets on his way to the ministry: so neat was he, so formal, so 4 Bureaucracy starched that he might have been taken for an Englishman on the... ...y by such hopes and by the natural extravagance of happy love, Monsieur 6 Bureaucracy and Madame Rabourdin spent nearly one hundred thou- sand francs... ...rhaps she was right; perhaps she would have been great under great cir- 8 Bureaucracy cumstances; perhaps she was not in her right place. Let us reme... ...n her- self. Ideas are contagious in a household; the ninth thermidor, 10 Bureaucracy like so many other portentous events, was the result of fe- mal... ...able clerks are kept in their places, though they hold these places on 12 Bureaucracy sufferance, anxious as they are to retain them. Bureaucracy, a ... ...ns stood in place of action; a million of reports were written every year; bureaucracy was enthroned! Records, statistics, documents, failing which Fr...

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...A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various social activities — politics, publishing, theatre, philanthropy, and business — he finds more hypocrisy and corruption than he thought possible. He takes r...

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...ut to end, and in preparing for the apocalypse, may be unnecessarily bringing about their own demise. The planetary government can’t overcome its own bureaucracy to help them, and the military is overwhelmed. Can a single newsman change the course of a whole people, and save their world? (by Mark Nelson)...

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...OF A GIRL - 35 SHE AND HE - 36 VIBRATIONS ON A SENSITIVE STRING - 37 A POSITIVE MINUS - 38 FRAGMENT OF FRAGMENT - 39 THE UNREAL IS REALITY - 40 BUREAUCRACY - 41 I LIVED MY LIFE / THE DYING WAY - 42 THE FIGHT OF OPPOSITES - 43 GO AHEAD, PLEASE! - 44 THEATER IN ABSURD - 45 HEARING AT GOD - 46 CITIZEN EDUCATION - 47 SCENE OF SCENERY - 48 DIALOGUE AT LONG DISTANC...

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...n Jews. That it took him 8 years to steel his nerves and put in place the necessary bureaucracy doesn’t detract from his guilt.” “Of course it do... ...n. Until August 1941, he adamantly turned down demands from both the Party and the bureaucracy to order the Jews to wear a yellow Star-of-David bad...

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...” she said and shrugged casually, “there is a lot of work, a lot of time and bureaucracy but look at the new laws governing guns and child molestatio...

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..., Director?” “You can’t. I need to speak with the president. It’s urgent.” Garza hated bureaucracy, but understood its necessity. “Director,” th...

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...he Director of the Bureau ofIndian Mfairs for the State of Washington. But the bureaucracy, the red tape, and the Federal indifference to the pligh... ...up, and Frank could fix that easily. He knew every loophole in the Gov­ ernment Bureaucracy. He was perfect for Pierce and Frank knew it. Pierce al... ...ial, Mr. Chairman, I would not be the only defendant here. Our entire system of bureaucracy, and in particular, many of our government officials wou... ...just hides their crimes from the people, and then, secretly, enslaves them with bureaucracy, all the while pretending to serve the public, instead o...

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...supervisor, or a brave IM worker, would have shot missiles of time consuming bureaucracy and lack of kindness at her and Gabriele's laser eyes would h... ... to be there contributing to any bit of it: writing documentation, red tape, bureaucracy of this and that sucking up my ideas." "You are one heavy, t...

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...ss The Secrets of the Princess Cadignan Les Employes The Government Clerks Bureaucracy Sarrasine Sarrasine Facino Cane Facine Cane Les Parents Pauvres...

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... being a moss-grown reactionary. Everything was not for the best. Despotic bureaucracy… abuses…corruption…and so on. Capable men were wanted. En- ligh...

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... bureau- cracy that has not hitherto been an example for efficiency into a bureaucracy that will be constructive, responsive, lib- eral, scientific, a... ...t methods the Eastern and Western Powers have to attain a common end. Both bureaucracy and pseudo-democratic oligarchy have to accomplish an identi- c...

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... enough to live on. That’s a system that does away with stamped papers and bureaucracy, the curse of France, hein?” “By virtue of what right?” said Le...

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...upporting both him and his sister. The influence of the Restoration on the bureaucracy is well known. From the forty and one suppressed departments a ... ...f the dominical meetings. Among the number we must mention Rabourdin [see “Bureaucracy”], the former head of Thuillier’s office at the ministry of fi-...

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...ded many, and then cheating the many out of it again in the interests of a bureaucracy of sham ex- perts. But that seems the limit of the liberal imag...

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...lways been treated with distin- guished consideration in my contracts with bureaucracy dur- ing the war; but on this occasion I found myself persona g...

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... that its present staff of enthusiast-com- manders shall be succeeded by a bureaucracy of men of busi- ness who will be no better than bishops, and pe...

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...leable commodity; substitute self- government and decentralization for the bureaucracy and de- moralizing hugeness of the modern State and the modern ... ...onomic power of the State and the influence which it can exert through its bureaucracy. State Socialists argue as if there would be no dan- ger to lib... ...re- sentative institutions would suffice to undo the evils threat- ened by bureaucracy. Against this view, Anarchists and Syndi- calists have directed...

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...and I hoped to hold her in my arms in a distant grave. I did not know that bureaucracy could send its claws into our very coffins.” He now wished to s...

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...ening competition and increasing cooperation in other parts of the federal bureaucracy, particularly the law enforcement and intelligence communities.... ..., the significance of the Iran-Contra affair was that it made parts of the bureaucracy reflexively skeptical about any operating directive from the Wh... ...trained to kill Americans.” 248 Turning to the CIA, Clarke warned that its bureaucracy, which was “mas- terful at passive aggressive behavior,” would ...