Circumlocution

Sometime pretty soon the BBC will air its new production of Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit, a book about enduring, patient love as well as an angry satire on the debtors 'prisons of the time and, one of this author's enduring themes, the hells of bureaucracy (here epitomized by the Circumlocution Office of the British government).

Reading Maxine 2009

I think some troll has gone to the “George Will School of Circumlocution”.

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But the Circumlocution Office sets a standard to which other offices of government can only aspire.

Brian Rosenberg: Hard Times for These Times Brian Rosenberg 2011

When I think about more recent efforts by the federal government to regulate and standardize higher education, I recall, from Little Dorrit, Dickens prescient description of the Circumlocution Office, the "most important Department under Government," whose great accomplishment is to be foremost among all government departments in practicing the great art of "HOW NOT TO DO IT."

Brian Rosenberg: Hard Times for These Times Brian Rosenberg 2011

When I think about more recent efforts by the federal government to regulate and standardize higher education, I recall, from Little Dorrit, Dickens prescient description of the Circumlocution Office, the "most important Department under Government," whose great accomplishment is to be foremost among all government departments in practicing the great art of "HOW NOT TO DO IT."

Brian Rosenberg: Hard Times for These Times Brian Rosenberg 2011

When I think about more recent efforts by the federal government to regulate and standardize higher education, I recall, from Little Dorrit, Dickens prescient description of the Circumlocution Office, the "most important Department under Government," whose great accomplishment is to be foremost among all government departments in practicing the great art of "HOW NOT TO DO IT."

Brian Rosenberg: Hard Times for These Times Brian Rosenberg 2011

When I think about more recent efforts by the federal government to regulate and standardize higher education, I recall, from Little Dorrit, Dickens prescient description of the Circumlocution Office, the "most important Department under Government," whose great accomplishment is to be foremost among all government departments in practicing the great art of "HOW NOT TO DO IT."

Brian Rosenberg: Hard Times for These Times Brian Rosenberg 2011

But the Circumlocution Office sets a standard to which other offices of government can only aspire.

Brian Rosenberg: Hard Times for These Times Brian Rosenberg 2011

But the Circumlocution Office sets a standard to which other offices of government can only aspire.

Brian Rosenberg: Hard Times for These Times Brian Rosenberg 2011

But the Circumlocution Office sets a standard to which other offices of government can only aspire.

Brian Rosenberg: Hard Times for These Times Brian Rosenberg 2011